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This podcast tracks the audio archives for the “Heartland Labor Forum” radio show. The Heartland Labor Forum is Kansas City’s only program about the workplace. It’s radio that talks back to...
What impact are ICE raids having on immigrant workers and communities in rural Missouri? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk...
There’s been a lot of news lately about the Port Authority and how the Kansas City building trades unions finally got them to agree to requi...
A member of the new KC Bus Riders Union says, “We want to show that the buses can serve everyone, not just people who rely on them as a life...
Sick of junk fees, phone scams and wasted time with customer service? We’ll talk with Chad Maisel of the Groundwork Collaborative about the...
It’s baseball season, and it’s the 50th anniversary of free agency. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll look at one of the most su...
The KC Indivisible Social Justice Chorus will raise their voices in song in a preview of their appearance at the Mill Creek NO Kings rally n...
This year’s legislative session may leave working people in a state of Misery, their rights assaulted, with fewer public services and less f...
The Kansas legislature has a month to go and there’s good news and bad for working families. We’ll find out more this week on the Heartland...
On March 10, the Leavenworth City Commission is about to give permission for the Core Civic private prison there to reopen as an ICE jail, g...
PLEDGE DRIVE! – PLEDGE DRIVE! – PLEDGE DRIVE! Organizer and historian Dave Kamper gives an overview of the recent labor upsurge in his new b...
We’re going to introduce our listeners to a couple of shows from the Labor Radio Podcast Network. The Green and Red podcast did a show about...
Whether AI will be a glorious revolution for humanity or a dystopian nightmare remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: Big Tech is all...
Dockworkers have long been on the progressive forefront supporting racial equality and fighting fascism. This week on the Heartland Labor Fo...
Last fall workers at two Half Priced Books stores organized a union. Now workers at the Westport store have won a first contract. We’ll cele...
Do you know the union members Bill of Rights? If you are a union member these affect you just in case your union fails to be democratic. Ton...
UE, The United Electrical Workers, was the first US union to denounce Trump’s attacks on Venezuela. Other unions have now joined them demand...
A year ago on the Heartland Labor Forum we predicted what was in store for working people in 2025. This week we’ll look in our 2026 crystal...
It’s our Best of 2025 part 2 show. We'll hear interesting interviews, features, and songs from the last year, including the labor system tha...
It’s our Best of 2025 part 1 show. We'll rediscover a long-lost labor leader, hear from the most successful NLRB general counsel in years, a...
What do you get when you cross two of the most popular concepts in modern-era: mindfulness and resistance? You guessed it: a teach-in by Hol...
Mental health problems are on the rise, and finding help can be tough. To make matters worse, people often don’t want to talk about it. So,...
Authoritarians fear teachers. Why? Because propaganda and fear lose their grip when students become critical thinkers. This week on the Hear...
As we did last Thanksgiving, this week we are giving thanks for labor songs and working music on the Heartland Labor Forum. Work songs would...
Pharmacy techs at KU Medical Center want a union. The Med Center has hired a union busting law firm. It’s not the first time. We’ll ask work...
“While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” T...
Over a year and a half ago, faculty and academic staff at the University of Kansas overwhelmingly voted in favor of unionization as the Unit...
It’s all about shutdown and resistance. First, Jessica LaPointe is President of the American Federation of Government Employees Social Secur...
Should your tax dollars that go to build publicly funded construction projects be used to pay for work done by companies that rip off their...
Since 1935, the rules for union organizing and bargaining for most private sector companies have been set by the National Labor Relations Ac...
Ever wonder why official economic reports don’t match your experience? We'll talk to economist Heather Long about how the rich are doing so...
Walter Reuther died in a plane crash in May 1970. The government ruled it an accident, but was it? Or was it something more nefarious? We'll...
Pittsburgh Post Gazette workers have been on strike for more than a thousand days. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll ask Jon Schl...
Is Fascism creeping toward the USA or is it already here? We’ll hear about two books to help you decide. First fascism expert Jason Stanley...
Albert Einstein once said he’d rather have been a plumber. Here in KC Plumbers Local 8 has a new leader - Matt Harris. He’ll be on the Heart...
This week the Missouri legislature will once again meet to undermine the will of the voters. On the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll talk to Benj...
Jennifer Abruzzo was General Counsel to the National Labor Relations Board during the Biden administration. She pioneered changes to help re...
Washburn University students from Topeka joined a Witness for Peace delegation to Cuba to learn about race, environment and the U.S. economi...
The Trump administration has attacked the federal workforce with firings, union busting, weakened job protections, reduced telework, and spe...
In an age of Amazon, Starbucks and Google it may seem impossible for workers to win a union. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll t...
Economist Richard Wolff – podcaster, professor, Marxist and strong advocate for worker-owned cooperatives is more relevant today than ever....
Unions that haven’t gone on strike in years are facing doing so as an increasing number of bosses refuse to bargain in good faith. This week...
Two women started Boots on the Ground Midwest on a whim and full of despair. It’s evolved quickly mobilizing and motivating citizens to prot...
We are thrilled to welcome back award-winning novelist Rachel Kushner for a second in-depth interview—this time about her gripping new corpo...
The United Electrical, Radio and Machine workers is a union that’s much more than just those occupations. UE as it’s called, has organized t...
KU Labor Historian David Roediger is a scholar of white working-class studies. His new memoir, An Ordinary White; My Anti-Racist Education c...
There’s a lot of controversy about Trump’s tariffs for auto. Is it just spectacle, or could they actually lead to more domestic auto product...
Trump dumped NIOSH – the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health? We’ll ask if we can save it and why it’s important to worker...
Last November Missouri citizens made their voices heard at the ballot box in favor of abortion access and paid sick leave for workers. Then...
Americans have many questions these days about government services like the postal service that are under attack. This week on the Heartland...
UAW founder Walter Reuther was famous, his brother Roy wasn’t, but he made important contributions to both the labor and civil rights moveme...