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Heartland Labor Forum — 581 episodes
Finding Missouri’s 4th Congressional District and Bad News: DC Circuit Court Invalidates Successor Bar
Elaine Weiss: Spell Freedom; The Underground Schools of the Civil Rights Movement
Trades Women (and Men) Want Childcare and Introducing Missouri Jobs with Justice’s New Organizer Allie White
When the KKK ruled KCK and Nelson Lichtenstein on the upcoming UAW elections
What Will It Take to Abolish Fossil Fuels? and You too can be a radio star!
Teaching Labor History in K-12 with Rethinking Schools Magazine and Is Trump Planning to Invest Your Retirement in Crypto?
World Cup Workers: Qatar in 2022 and Now
The August 4th Missouri Ballot Amendments #4: and #5 and Union Leader Series: Kevin King from Union Leader to Mayor of Independence
The August 4th Kansas Judicial Election Amendment and Putting the Movement Back in the Labor Movement at Labor Notes
The Emerging Green Economy and Daniel Kotzin: the Racist History of US Immigration Law
The Billionaires Have Two Parties; We Need One of Our Own!
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny: the Rise and Revolt of the College Educated Working Class and Joe Uehlein, Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology
NLRB Update – the New Republican Majority and Working Families Friend Turns 23
The 2026 State of Misery Legislative Sum-up and the Labor Caucus and --- IT'S KKFI SUMMER FUND DRIVE!
Is the Proposed Royals Stadium a Good Deal for Taxpayers?
It's Labor History Month - plan your vacation with a map of labor sites and Quindaro - some local history
Mid-Continent Library Workers Organize and Retiring Texas AFL-CIO President Rick Levy
Motown & the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries and the Kansas City Public School Foundation
KU Pharmacists Organize!
Raiding the Heartland by William D. Lopez and The Missouri Legislature’s Labor Caucus
The KC Port Authority Subsidies and Our Schools and Will Killing the State Income Tax Cost Working People More? You betcha!
The New Bus Riders Union and IATSE Local 31 is Staffing the World Cup
The Annoyance Economy and Missouri Workers Center Organizing Restaurant Workers
Celebrating 50 Years of Free Agency in Baseball
Singing No Kings and Hunger Is a Union Issue
Jeff City Misery – A Legislative Update
Kansas Legislative Update and ATU’s Nic Miller in Our Labor Leader Series
CoreCivic in Leavenworth: Reformed or Human Rights Abuser? We’ll Talk to Prison Guards and Residents
Whose Got the Power? By Dave Kamper and Parents for KC Kids
From the Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins to Minneapolis Some News and Lessons from other Labor Shows
The AI Bubble??? and Challenges of Social Work in a Shrinking Welfare State
Peter Cole on Dockworker Resistance to Arms Shipments and John Miller: Health Insurance for 20 Million is at Risk
Half Price Book Workers Win a Union and Union Buster Supreme: The Pittsburgh Post Gazette
A Union Member’s Bill of Rights and Deep Fission: Is It Safe?
United Electrical Workers: 1st Union to Come Out Against War with Venezuela and Have Politicians and the Media Lied Us into War on Venezuela?
Our Annual Crystal Ball Show: What's in Store for the Working Class in 2026?
Best of Heartland Labor Forum in 2025 - part 2
Best of HLF n 2025 - part 1
Resistance Teach-In with the Guy from ET (aka Peter Coyote)
We Ask: What Are Unions Doing about Members’ Mental Health?
Randi Weingarten: Why Fascists Fear Teachers and Wage Theft: Employers Steal Billions from Workers’ Wages Each Year
Thanks for the Labor and Work Songs
KU Med Hires Union Buster to Stop Pharmacy Techs from Organizing and Union Leader Series: Joey Flickner of the Painters Union
Bernie Sanders and AOC at the Eugene Debs Foundation Award Ceremony on Debs’ Vision for Labor and Human Solidarity
KU Professors Are Long Overdue for their First Contract and Can Labor and Management Really Cooperate?-An Interview with Bob Jacobi
The Future of Social Security and Shutdown and Resistance
Kansas City’s Development Incentives and Responsible Bidder Ordinances
Can Unions Live without the National Labor Relations Act? A Roundtable Discussion
America’s Top-heavy Economy and Marcella Bencivenni: How Italian Immigrants Shaped the US Labor Movement
Was UAW President Walter Reuther Assassinated? and What Would a Pro- Worker Tariff Policy Look Like?
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette Workers Wonder How Long Can a Strike Last? And Gerrymandering Missouri? With Rep Keri Ingle
Creeping Fascism??? - Jason Stanley: Erasing History and A Young People’s Guide to Fascism
New Union Leader Matt Harris of Plumbers Local 8 and Donna Birks Takes the Lead at LEPCI
Respect Missouri Voters Wants to Ban Politicians from Overruling the Will of the Voters and Boeing St. Louis on Strike
Former NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. She was the best we’ve had and Trump fired her
Cuba Through the Eyes of Washburn University Students
Labor Leader Series: Federal Unions and Workers in the Crosshairs of DOGE
What the Boss Doesn’t You To Know. . .and NAFTA-USMCA Renegotiation: Where Is Trade Justice?
Richard Wolff: How Will Trump’s Economic Plans Change Our Working Class?
How to Have a Successful Strike and Should We Get Rid of Taxes on Tips? It’s KKFI’s SUMMER PLEDGE DRIVE
Who’s Raising Hell in KC? Boots on the Ground and the Kansas City Defender
Rachel Kushner: Novelist of Activism, Revolution and Intrigue and What’s a Workers’ Center?
What’s a Member-Run Union? Carl Rosen, President of UE – the United Electrical Radio and Machines Workers Union
Two Books: David Roediger: An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education and Eric Blanc: We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big
UAW’s Support of Tariffs and Jeremy Brecher: the Green New Deal from Below
Can We Save NIOSH? and Labor for Palestine
Licking Our Wounds: A 2025 Missouri Legislature Wrap-Up
Labor Leader Series: Darcy Wood and Our Right to Read Is Under Attack
Alan Reuther: From Flint to Selma: How Roy Reuther Shaped Labor & Civil Rights in America and Bert Nash Mental Health Workers Organize
Social Security Workers Speak Out
HLF-May1-2025-May Day! – Songs, History, and Rants to Celebrate Worker Power
Remembering the British Miners’ Strike after 40 Years with Miner John Dunn
Labor Leader Series: Dustin Himes from Bricklayers & Allied Craftsworkers Local 15 and Rep Tobias Schlingensiepen: Fighting Fascism from Germany to KS
How Do We Overcome Internal Division in Unions? and Beneath REI’s Green Sheen: Union Busting, Debt Bondage, and Partnership with Eco-Criminals
Layoffs at Haskell Indian Nations University: Treaty Violation? And Property Tax Reform: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Why Has America’s Greatest Labor Progressive: Frank P. Walsh Been Forgotten? and The School District Bond Issue with Dr. Jennifer Collier
Will the Missouri Legislature Undo the Will of the Voters? and Former AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff: Love Is Solidarity in Action
Federal Unions Fight Back
CWA’s Margaret Cook: Attacks on the Public Sector and Half-Priced Books Workers Organize
The Workers Strike Back Conference and Julie Greene on Who Built the Panama Canal and Trump’s Bullying
David Bacon on Domestic Workers Organizing and Nancy MacLean: Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
Explaining Tariffs and How They Affect the Working Class and Hidden in Plain Sight: the $8.5 trillion in Untaxed Income of the Rich
Freeman’s Challenge; The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit by Robin Bernstein and The KC Campaign to End Gender Violence in the Workplace
Nuggets of Gold: Processed Chicken and the American Diet by Patrick Dixon and The Life and Death of an American Worker by Alice Driver
What’s Responsible Bidder Language? and Are There Dire Days Ahead for Labor Under Trump?
“The Union Changed My Life” UFCW’s Laura Kelly and Union Leader Series: New KC Federation of Teachers President David Price
Public Transit Union Fights Service Cutbacks
The Best of 2024 of the Heartland Labor Forum
Blue Collar Empire — The AFL-CIA and Trump’s Labor Department Pick
Heartland Labor Forum’s Annual Crystal Ball Show
David Kingsley Asks: Is Medicare Advantage a Scam? and Shifting Gears; Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics
What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? and IRIS Workers Organizing
Thanks for the Labor Music
Missouri Initiative Debrief on Amendment 3 and Prop A and The Right to Read Coalition
Where Does the Labor Movement Go from Here? and Labor Leader Series: CWA Local 6327’s Tanya Holmes
Teresa Ghilarducci: Is Your Employer Selling Off Your Pension? and HELU, Higher Education Labor United
Two Books Perfect for Halloween: Not All Fun and Games and Building Power, Breaking Power
News Guild Leader John Schleuss Challenging Lords of a Dying Industry and Union Leader Series: Firefighters 781’s Mike Veit
Three Hot Missouri House Races
Two Hot State Senate Races and Is Biden the Most Pro-Labor Prez?
Stephanie L. Canizales, Without Parents Or Papers: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States and Hot Kansas Legislative Races
On The Clock; What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane and Leadville Colorado: Labor History at 10,000 Feet
What Do You Know About the Fair Labor Standards Act? and IBEW 124 Wins Paid Family Leave
The Problems with Nursing Home Jobs and Disconnected Call Center Workers II
Si Kahn at 80: Honoring a Life of Song and Activism
Two Books: Debbie Goldman’s Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age and Jake Friedman’s The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation’s Golden Age
Project 2025, Trump and Harris on Immigration and KCMO School District’s International Welcome Center
The New Plan to Fleece Workers’ Pensions and IBEW Local 53’s Ben Bush
Is It Really the End of Lean Production? and KC and the Pregnancy Fairness Act
Why Are They Trying to Outlaw Rank Choice Voting? And Ethan Marcotte, You Deserve a Tech Union
What the F*** Is Wrong with the Postal Service and Mizzou Workers Ask When the University Will Bargain in Good Faith
Why Asset Managers Own the World and Presente!
Latest Decisions on Unions from the Supreme Court and The East Side Freedom Library
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee Helps Demystify How to Organize and Doug Genens – Oral Labor Historian
The Politics of Trade Policy and Do We Need More Militarized Police?
Michael Zweig and his New Book Class Race & Gender; Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism and Jenny Agee: Truck-Driving Woman
Operating Engineers Local 101 Union Leader Aaron Brown and Vets and Unions Go Fishing for Freedom
Jayhawks Flock to the Union and Labor Song Covers
The Legislative Sausage Grinder: What happened This Year in Jeff City and Topeka?
Art Works: How Art Enlivens Social Struggles
Reassessing the Legacy of Walter Reuther
Ron Carey: From UPS Driver to Teamster President and What Constitutional Rights Do Corporations Have?
The Voucher Scam and the Construction Contractor Tax Dodge
Comparing Our Labor Law with Europe and Canada and Gerald Epstein: Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us
ZEDE Prospera: A Libertarian Fantasy with Nightmare Results and Bob Bruno’s What Work Is: How Worker See Work
Third Parties: Are They Spoilers or Do They Strengthen Democracy?
East Palestine: Still Derailed One Year Later and Blood in the Machine: Workers vs. Automation
The 3/8th cent sales tax pro and con
Librarians vs. the Book Ban and Kansas City Labor’s 40 Political Club
The Flight Attendant Rebellion: A History of the Independent Federation of Flight Attendants at TWA
Les Leopold: Wall Streets War on Workers and What’s the Kansas Legislature Cookin’ Up for Us?
What Are they Cookin’ up This year in Jeff City? and Marijuana Dispensary Workers Organize
A Dictator Goes on Trial and Hamilton Nolan: The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement
Work Under Occupation and Unions Come Out for Ceasefire in Gaza
The Work of a Jazz Musician and Some Great Labor Songs
Is Trump a Fascist? and Kevin Hendrickson of Pipefitters Local 533
Foxconned by Lawrence Tabak and The Chevron Deference Case: A Corporate Power Grab?
The Best of 2023 on the Heartland Labor Forum
Labor’s Crystal Ball for 2024
UAW’s Southern Strategy – an Assessment and Nanni Balestrini’s We Want Everything – A Strike Novel
Chad Pearson, Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen & Employers . . . – and – from Prison Guard to Union President Lynn Fields Is Making Prisons Safer for All
Can Labor Seize the Movement Moment? – and – How Jane McAlevy Transformed the Labor Movement
Alise Martiny: Woman at the Top – and – Steve Gercone of the Roofers Union
Best of 2023 on the Heartland Labor Forum
Teamsters for a Democratic Union: Is It in the Vanguard of Labor?
Banned but not Forgotten; The State of KCMO School Libraries – and – Challenges and Opportunities in the Midwest Since COVID – EPI
Amazon Delivers — Bad Faith and What’s in the New Auto Contracts?
Two Books: Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice and Migration As Economic Imperialism
What the Oppenheimer Film Missed
Reggie Thomas – What do Laborers Do? and Jason Roberts: Why the Shortage of Teachers and Other School Personnel?
The Lives of Maritime Workers and Does the Jones Act Really Protect Their Jobs?
When Will Farmworkers Get Labor Justice? and JwJ’s Erika Smiley: The Future We Need; Organizing for a Better Democracy in the 21st Century
What’s the Matter with Kansas Workers Comp? and The New McCarthyism
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and How to Blow the Whistle on Unsafe Conditions at Work and Not Get Fired
The Perils of Working Non-Union and Immigrant and Heartland Women in Trades Need for Childcare
Worker Philosophy – Philosophy of Work and Robert Cherny: Harry Bridges; Labor Radical, Labor Legend
Shawn Fein, Bernie Sandeers and UAW 31 President Dontay Wilson on the Auto Negotiations
The Life of a Dispatcher and Machinists Leader Scott Brown
Summer Reading: Bill Fletcher, Jr. The Man Who Changed Colors and Working Class Giant: The Life of William Z. Foster
Should the AFL-CIO Endorse the Right to Abortion? and UPS: What Do the Workers Think?
Essential Workers for Union Democracy: a Growing Movement and The Ghost Workers Behind AI
Organizing Starbucks and Trader Joes
21st Century Union Busting and What’s in the Meany Labor Archives?
Whitewashing Labor and American History
Ahmed White: Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers and Isn’t It Time to Nationalize the Railroads?
The Return of Child Labor — Again???
Sheltered Workshops and 22¢ an Hour The Fight to Ban the Subminimum Wage
The New Labor Beacon under KC AFL-CIO Ownership and Labor Leader Profile: United Steelworker District 11 Director Emil Ramirez
Teamsters Team Up to Fight UPS
The Fight Against Wage Theft and Jon Carpenter on the Clay County Fair Contracting Ordinance
Candidates in Two Hot KC City Council Races: Darrell Curls and Michael Kelly and Chris Gahagan and Nathan Willett (invited)
Robert Pollin: Just Transitions to a Green Economy and New Stadium: Who Will Pay? Who will Benefit?
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten with Local 691’s Jason Roberts on the Attack on Teachers and Whitewashing of Education
Inside the Sewing Lab Apprenticeship Program and Traveling Musicians Local 1000
What Happens When Work Disappears? and Management Rights vs Workers
Riding the Bad Bills’ Clown Car through Kansas and Missouri
Labor’s Friday Folklorist, Saul Schniderman
Derailed in Ohio! What About Kansas City? What’s Coming Thru A Rail Near You?
New Building Trades Council Leader Ralph Oropeza and SMART Local 2’s Greg Chastain
Labor Power & Strategy: Organizing around the Choke Points
Staffing Our Hospitals: Nurses vs HCA and The Cost of Worker Misclassification
Sherman Smith, Reflecting on the Kansas Legislature and Kansas City Public Schools Update from AFT Local 691 – New Superintendent and big Contract Win!
Beyond Team Management and Teamsters Delivering a New UPS Contract
Trucking Country; The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy by Shane Hamilton and Labor Leader Series: Amber Gibson Navigating the Future for Argosy Casino Workers
New NLRB Rules for Organizing and Fighting Times by Jonathan Melrod
Rock Chalk Union – Organizing at KU and M-Power – The Multilateral Partnership for Organizing, Worker Empowerment, and Rights
Busting the Myth of Lazy Youth
Fred Redmond and Bill Lucy on MLK and Rep Jamie Johnson on the MO Leg
Ex-Postal Worker Willa has a Passion for Books and New Rules for Gig Workers
Labor’s 2023 Crystal Ball: Will It Be Good for Working People
Justin Akers Chacon: The Case for Opening th Border and Why Doesn’t the NLRB Cover Ag and Domestice Workers? Might I Have to Do with Race?
The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Red Carol
The Fading of Local For-profit Print Media and Rise of the Non-Profits and Independence Firefighters’ Fight for Health Care
Jerry Wood of Teamsters Local 955 and Stories from the 1970s of Women in Non-Traditional Jobs with Jenny Agee – Trucker and Teamster Organizer
Ellen Cassedy, Working 9 to 5 and The UAW’s First Direct Election for Top Officers
Remembering Herb Johnson a Year after his Death
Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation & Class by Michael Yates and Will Jay Ashcroft Take Away Your Right to Read?
Will the Supreme Court Preempt the Right to Strike? and The Return of OSHA
The Zookeepers’ Union and Why the BMWE Rejected the Rail Contract
Librarians Speak Out about Book Banning and the Kansas City Fair Contractor Alliance
What’s the Teachers’ Union Have to Say about the KCMO School Closings? and Ironworkers’ Dave Coleman
ROC United’s New Restaurant Bill of Rights and KC Tenants New Political Arm
Daisy Pitkin: On the Line and Does the State Department Union Bust?
Will There Be a National Railway Strike? And Wire Women Lighting It Up – What It’s Like to Be a Female Union Electrician
TIFs and Other Incentives: Welfare for Rich Developers?
The National Alliance for Retired Americans Goes to Kansas and What Liberals Get Wrong about the New Deal
Rep. Sharice Davids and KS AFL-CIO’s John Nave on What Has Congress Done for Us Lately
Where Have All the Teachers Gone? and Tales from the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
Teachers with Guns/Students with Guns
Former NLRB Chair William Gould, and Carson Pope on Missouri labor politics
Profile of two union leaders: CWA organizer Jeff Hayes and ATU 1287 President Will Howard
4000 Union Troublemakers – A Report from the Labor Notes Conference
Inflation and Monopoly: What’s the Connection? And David Bacon: More Than a Wall – 30 Years of Photos
Max Alvarez-The Work of Living and Revisiting Joy Silk – can the NLRB Make It Easier to Organize?
A Pregnant HLF Volunteer Investigates Maternity Leave and The New AFL-CIO Leadership
Ellen Bravo and Larry Miller: Tales of Struggle and The Long Wait for Missouri Medicaid
The Postal Reform Act and UMKC Student Tenant Union
Is the Right to an Abortion a Working Women’s Issue? Is it Common Sense?
Dystopian Novelist Dave Eggers, Author of The Every and the Circle
The Need to Ban Anti-Union Captive Audience Meetings
Why Teachers Need Unions and Starbucks Update
Teachers and a Librarian Slam CRT and Book Banning
Kansas Legislative Wrap-up with the Kansas AFL-CIO’s John Nave and Union Leaders Series: Chris Fairbanks – Independence Firefighter
The Missouri Apprentice Ready Program and Kim Kelly with her new Untold History of American Labor
Solidarity Without Borders – the Partnership of UE and FAT and Ranked Choice Voting
Remembering the Railway Shopmen’s Strike and What’s the State of Current Rail Negotiations?
El Golpe: US Labor, the CIA, and the Coup at Ford Mexico – an Interview with Rob McKenzie
A Profile of Jason Starr of UAW 249 and The Labor Beacon’s New Faces
Woody Guthrie- Songs and Art, Words and Wisdom and SEIU Healthcare and the Health Levy
New Books: Joe Burns: Class Struggle Unionism & N. Iskander: Migrant Workers in Qatar
Is the Missouri Legislature Out to Destroy Public Schools?
Davos Man by Peter Goodman & An Interview with NLRB General Council Jennifer A. Abruzzo
Searching for Good Bills among the Bad in Jeff City
Warrior Met Coal: How to Survive a Strike and Coal Miner Songs
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America and Unchecked Mergers with the Institute for Local Self Reliance
Remembering Bill Onasch
The Leadville Irish Miners Memorial and Workplace Monitoring: Is Your Boss Spying on You?
New Union Leaders: IBEW’s Todd Howerton and Firefighters’ Dan Heisman
Who Is to Blame for the Current Inflation? We’ll Ask Richard Wolff and KC Google Workers Organize
Mapping the Current Strike Wave and Replacing Permanent Replacement
KC’s New Wage Theft Ordinance and Duke on Biden
Why Stamping Out Racism Is Good for White People (and everyone else too) Heather McGhee in KC with Terrence and Bridgette from Stand Up KC
New Union Leaders Series: Kevin Gard, Cement Masons & Who’s In the Working Class?
Two Victories for Workers: Chilean Workers Can Now Purge the Pinochet Constitution and Autoworkers Vote for Democracy
Getting There for XMAS: Supply Chain Blues and Will Santa Deliver?
Teamsters Vow to Organize Amazon and the Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial
A Labor Tribute to Herb Johnson (1943-2021)
Remembering Herb Johnson & Keith Nelson from the 2011 show on TWA
Unions and Vaccine Mandates and Is CRT: Turning Parents Against Teachers?
Workplace Shootings: One ATU Leader’s Plea for Workplace Mental Health and Remember, Remember Striketober in November?
More Perfect Union: Labor News and Lessons for Labor from the Afghan War
Voting in Missouri: The Old Rules Again to Limit Voting and Asylum for Sale – Adrienne Pine’s book on the Asylum Industrial Complex
Teamsters International: Is the Tide Changing? And Biden’s NLRB
CEOs Who “Love” Unions Everywhere but in Their Own Companies and Indigenous Peoples’ Day
AIRPORT! Who Is Doing the Work?
Two New Union Leaders in KC
Workers Unite Film Festival and The Alabama Coal Strike
What Direction for the Post-Trumka AFL-CIO?
Women, Equal Pay, Access to City Jobs and life support for the ERA
Ed Asner at KKFI in 2013 – a Heartland Labor Forum Special Program
LABOR DAY! A Medley of our Volunteers’ Favorite Labor Books and Songs
Steven Greenhouse, Labor Reporter and UAWD – Will Autoworkers Win the Right to Vote?
Robert Ovetz on Global Class Struggle and Remembering Chuy Negrete
Two Labor Leaders Coming and Going: Michael Bell and Jason Roberts
KC Tenants and the People’s Housing Trust
Medicaid Expansion in Missouri AT LAST!
Unified Government of Wyandotte County KCK Mayor/CEO Candidate Forum & Voices from the Frito-Lay Picket Line
What’s the Matter with Thomas Frank?
The Latest Scam Scare: Critical Race Theory
Are One-Man Trains Comin’ Down the Track? And Help Wanted: Heartland Labor Forum Volunteers
Jeremy Brecher’s Updated ‘Strike’
Two Women Labor Leaders: Alise Martiny and Antoinette Robinson
Dan McCrory, How Capitalism Killed the Middle Class and Rigged the System and New AFSCME Local 500 President Reginald Silvers
How We Failed Essential Workers
Missouri’s School Voucher Problem & Eric Lotke: Union Made
The Jobs Guarantee: Is Full Employment Possible?
Long Live Scabby the Rat! and Sarah Lloyd Green and the Kansas City General Strike
A is for Asylum: How We Talk about Immigration and Judy Ancel: The Heart of the Labor Forum
May the Earth Have Another Day – Celebrating Earth Day and May Day
Jane McAlevey: A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing and the Fight for Democracy
Missouri Legislative Sum-up with Rep. Crystal Quade and Barbara Washington
Toni Gilpin, The Long Deep Grudge and Organizing Google
Organizing the Lawrence Journal-World & How the Ultra-Rich Profit from Racial Injustice
Charter Schools: Good or Bad for Teachers/Kids/Education?
The Kansas City Earnings Tax Election & Lessons from the Last Stand of the Steelworkers in Homestead, PA
What Difference Does A Union Make & Organizing Amazon in Alabama
Anne Feeney — A Musical Remembrance
Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver on the State of Congress & Reversing New Agricultural Policies in India
What’s Cookin’ In the Kansas & Missouri Legislatures?
The Biden Administration’s New Labor Secretary & Policies On Latin America and Migration
Isn’t It Time for Paid Leave?
Mike Stout: The Homestead Steel Mill: The Final 10 Years & Love & Solidarity, the Amazing Life of Rev. James Lawson
Thomas Frank and his new book: The People No: A History of Anti-Populism
Working Class History Podcast & Milan, MO’s Rural Workers Community Alliance
Nurses & Techs Still Fighting COVID
New Year’s Eve: Looking Back/Looking Forward
The Truth About Santa’s Workshop
How Did the PO Do in the Election & COVID Slams Youth & Women Workers
Jake Hummel & The PRO Act
“Blood Runs Coal” & COVID + Healthcare Workers
Two Lies & A Truth About Thanksgiving
Election Results & How Did the Working Class Vote?
Revisiting Harvest of Empire & The Hard Road of Hope
Options for New Employment & Are We Ready for A Shorter Work Week?
School’s Back, or Is It? & The Historical Role of Labor Parties
Election 2020 – More Interviews & Dirty Missouri
Imagining A Post-COVID Future: Roundtable
Election 2020: Interviews with Candidates
David Roediger: The Sinking Middle Class & Rose Feurer: Mother Jones-Her Monuments & Museums
Outrageous! Non-Profit Union Busters & MO Cuts for Kids
John Boyd: Labor Defender & KC Tenants ROCK!
Cuba & Scalia’s DOL
Louis DeJoy & Privatizing the USPS
Sports Unions & Black Lives Matter
100 Years of Women’s Suffrage & Ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment in Missouri
CWA in a Time of Change & Solidarity Under Siege: Labor in El Salvador
Teachers’ Views On School Reopenings
A Travel Guide to Labor Landmarks & Killing Asylum
Who Killed Berta Caceres & UMKC’s Budget Crisis: The Workers Pay
SEIU Healthcare & Medicaid Expansion In Missouri
Cuba Healthcare & Migrants In A Pandemic
Is Smithfield A Public Nuisance & It’s Not Police Unions, It’s Police Repression
Comedian Lee Camp with the Corona Report and Pandemic & Climate Change
No Money, Not Funny: Budget Cuts in Kansas & Missouri
Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions & Who’s Not Workin’? Getting Unemployment
The Deficit! So What? & Why America Needs Socialism
Cuba: How Socialists Fight A Pandemic & Christopher Martin: No Longer Newsworthy
Emily Twarog: Politics of the Pantry & Jessica Podhola Paints the Future for Labor
Picking Crops In A Pandemic & Honduras: How Not To Fight A Pandemic
May Day from Quarantine and A Primer on the New Pandemic Paid Leave Law, the FFCRA
“Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook”
“The Southern Key” & Missouri Jobs Centers Amid COVID-19
Homeless in Quarantine & Working Safely In A Pandemic
Pat Jones Maclin – KC Labor’s Conscience COVID 19 and your rights as workers
Can Medicare for All Beat Union Healthcare? and Dismantling Labor Rights at the NLRB
Is TIF Socialism for Corporations?
Selma at 55 and How Bad Is Voter Suppression?
Should KC Agree to Zone in Vision Quest? Understanding Socialism
KC Tenants take on TEH Realty and Kansas Legislature’s Bad Bills for Workers
Interviews with Riders on the Free Buses and Can We Afford Free Bus Rides?
Wage Theft: How Do I Protect Myself?
Union Neutering Through Team Concept
The Employee Benefit Security Administration: Their Mission Is to Protect Your Pension
www.organizing.work – a Website about Unions and an Interview with UAW Local 31’s Clarence Brown
A Record Year for Strikes: Are We Seeing a New Labor Militancy? and Eric Washington on Football Injuries
Worker Rebellion in France and Colombia
What’s Ahead in the Missouri and Kansas Legislatures?
A Book and a Movie: Democracy Collaborative: The Making of a Democratic Economy and Harriet the Movie
Neoliberalism 101 and the Very Un-Neoliberal Bike Co-op
Roofers Union Centennial and Youth in the Trades
Chicago Teachers Union Bargaining for the Common Good
Thanks ILCA for Giving Us that Award – HLF 2019 Radio Winner
American Factory: The Clash of Cultures or Just Bare-fisted Capitalism? and New Report on European Investors in the American South
Disappearing Poverty 2 and The Tenants Bill of Rights
Contracts-Contracts – Auto and Metropolitan Community College
How Good is Employer-Paid Healthcare?
Redefining Poverty and The Servant Economy
Truckers: How Is Government Allowing Increased Hours of Service and Taking a Tax Bite, Too?
Apprenticeship at Risk and When at Times the Mob is Swayed
Should Trump Be Impeached? – A Debate
Is This a Test? – How Does A Lifetime of Teaching Affect You? An Original Radio Drama
Cruise Ship Blues and Two Bills to Protect the Right to Organize and to End Tax Breaks for Outsourcing
Miners on the Tracks and Revisiting PATCO
News in Depth and Kansas Troublemakers School
Heartland Labor Forum • Aug. 29, 2019
Heartland Labor Forum • Aug. 22, 2019
Isn’t It Time for Medicaid Expansion? And The Attack on Federal Workers
Who You Gonna Call When Your Job Disappears? and Kansas School Bus Drivers: Starving in the Summer?
Next Auto Contract: Is the UAW A House Divided?
KC Tenants Organize and The Moral Budget
Special for July 4th: Who Counts in the US and What To do If ICE Comes
Temps and The Poverty of Work and Here We Go Again – War in Iran: A Labor Viewpoint
One Foot in the Grave – Another Shop Steward Mystery Novel and American Roots: Union Made in the USA Clothing
Honduras: Report Back from Delegation Investigating Why Migrants Come
Don’t Privatize Our Postal Service! And Lee Camp on the Democratic Candidates
Herb Johnson: Still Kickin’ for Labor and Eric Blanc: Red State Revolt
Labor and The Green New Deal and A Cousin remembers Fannie Lou Hamer – PLEDGE DRIVE!!!
Missouri Legislative Wrap-up and A New Book About a Model Labor Leader
United Fruit Company: Rotten Bananas and Keeping America White: US Immigration Policy
Kansas’s New Secretary of Labor, Delia Garcia and Kansas City’s Pay Gap Study
Eugene Debs: American Socialist – The Movie and Herbert March: 1930’s KC Organizer
Feel the Trickle: the Tax “Cuts”
Bruce Campbell: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster: Public Betrayal, Justice Denied and A New Labor Caucus for Missouri Democrats
Mayoral Candidate Forum with Phil Glynn & the Attack on Missouri Initiatives I
Sorry to Bother You, Boots and Lessons of the LA Teachers Strike
Mayoral Candidate Interview: Henry Klein and Rebuilding Power in Open Shop America
Mayoral Candidate Interview: Henry Klein and Rebuilding Power in Open Shop America
Mayoral Candidate Steve Miller & Worker Co-ops
Medea Benjamin on Iran & Mayoral Forum III with Candidates on Economic Justice Issues
Medea Benjamin on Iran & Mayoral Forum III with Candidates on Economic Justice Issues
New Threats and Promises from Missouri and Kansas Legislatures
Labor in Cuba and Trump’s Screw Job on Workers
Mayoral Forum II with Candidates on Economic Justice Issues
William Kennedy’s Ink Truck and What Do LA Teachers Want?
Will the New NAFTA Stop Oreo–Mexico from Sickening Its Workers?
NAFTA 2.0 & Why Labor Radio
Community Schools
Mayoral Forum I with Candidates on Economic Justice Issues
Undoing Missouri’s Public Sector and Erik Loomis – A History of America in Ten Strikes
Venezuela: The Other Side of the Story and Tex Sample: Working Class Rage
Rebroadcast from Sept. 20: How We Defeated Right to Work and Now What?
Election Recap on Worker Issues and People Before Profit: The Inspiring Story of the Founder of Bob’s Red Mill
Election Recap on Worker Issues and People Before Profit: The Inspiring Story of the Founder of Bob’s Red Mill
One Job Should Be Enough: The Marriott Strike and ATT Legacy: How about One Contract?
Ballot Initiatives: CLEAN and Raise Up Missouri
Is the Economy Blowing Bubbles? and Rail Workers Uniting
Sweat: A Play about Rustbelt America and The Fall of Wisconsin
Two Books about the Decline of Work and the Middle Class: Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work and Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
Middle School Kids Talk Labor History and Bill Fletcher has a novel: The Man That Fell from the Sky
Exploring the Psychology of Obedience and Wobs in KC
Prop A: How We Defeated Right to Work and Now What?
BlackKKlansman: HLF Looks Under the Hood and The Killing of DST
Is the Sharing Economy for the Byrds? and Street Fight Radio-WCRS
The Attack on Public Employee Unions and How They’re Resisting
Voter Suppression of Women and Bernie’s ‘Our Revolution’
Trump’s Federal Remix: A New Department of Child Labor and a Private Postal Service?
Downtown Shakedown and Bringing Football to Its Knees
Kicking the Koch Habit Conference Preview
Heartland Labor Forum
A Pension Primer for Young People and AT&T: No Legacy of Respect for Workers
UPS: What will Brown Do to You? And The Harvey Girls
What Trump Gets Wrong about Trade and What They Didn’t Teach You in School about Black and Latinx History
Our Disappearing Right to Vote and Is Civil Disobedience Still Relevant?
Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain and After the Cheering Stops Cyndy Feasel on Sports Concussions
Trumpism in Latin America: Stolen Elections and More Guns, Prisons and Immigrants
Quindaro: A Gateway to Freedom and Meet the HLF Feature Writers
Lauren Arthur vs. Kevin Corlew and Tiff over TIF in Raytown
A Day in the Life of a Right to Work Ballot Activist and Missouri Legislative Post Mortem
Getting Around Town: Street Cars, Buses, and Street Names
Workers’ Revival Festival – A Preview
Where Unemployment Isn’t Low and Gerald Horne on the Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy and Capitalism in Our Colonial Past
Choke Points; Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain and Goddess of Anarchy; The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical
Highlights from Labor Notes and Bill Fletcher on How to Beat Right to Work
Comp Time or Overtime Pay? And What’s Up with the Airport Deal?
Lives on the Line Story Slam
The Unions Speak Out on the Harley Shutdown and NCAA Players: Workers, Students or Slaves?
General Gym and Major Math: Teachers with Guns
Will Missouri Gut Prevailing Wage Laws and Class War USA: Dispatches from Workers’ Struggles in American History
The Gutting of Our Universities and Forced Arbitration: Surrender Your Rights
Charter Schmarter and Triangle Factory Fire Project Play
KC’s Entertainment Unions and Charter Schmarter
Brexit and British Workers and The Polk School
Generation Dollar General and the New Poor People’s Campaign
Two Books: Black Detroit and On New Terrain: How Capital Is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War by Kim Moody
Blood, Sweat and Fear: Violence in the Auto Industry and The Golden Shower of Tax Cuts
The One Device: The Secret History (and Moral Cost) of the iPhone and Panic Buttons for Hospitality Workers
Eleanor Goldfield: Paradigm Lost and Religious Freedom May Cost You Your Job
Amazon: Walmart of the Internet and Jobs with Justice’s Amazon Wish List
Peter Poschen: Decent Work, Green Jobs and the Sustainable Economy: Solutions for Climate Change and Sustainable Development and DACA Workers
Emily Twarog: Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food and Consumer Activism in the 20th Century and Sarah Adler-Milstein & John M. Kline: Sewing Hope
A Conversation with Historian David Roediger on Race, Labor and Management
Thomas Kochen: Shaping the Future of Work and Public Defenders Need a Bailout
Janus vs. AFSCME – The Threat to Public Sector Unions
Uber’s New Pay to Drive Scheme and Janitors Speak Out
Do Japanese Workers Have Rights? And Al Gore’s Inconvenient Sequel
The Great Job Creation Scam: Wisconsin’s New “FoxCon” and Subsidizing Robot Jobs
The Right to Protest: A Roundtable Discussion
Disabling Medicaid and The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Uniting Rail Workers
Lane Windham, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of the New Economic Divide and The NAACP Travel Advisory
Trump Attack on the Federal Workforce and Does It Pay to Go to College?
The Right to Work Signature Campaign and Greitens’ Dark Money
Shame on Carl Icahn and Preemption and the Minimum Wage
The ACLU: Immigrant Rights
Women’s Equality Week: Why Can’t Women TV Anchors Reach Retirement on the Job? And What Does Roe v. Wade Have To Do with Women’s Equality?
Will Robots Get Your Job? And Blackballed: Race, Politics, and Football
The Politics of Immigration and Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy
Is Vo-Tech Shrinking? and Street Medical Care for All
A Plan to Put the Brakes on Runaway Inequality and Countering Hate without Feeding The Trolls
“Waiting for Lefty” by SAVE UMKC THEATRE Students & Faculty
UMKC’s Latest Round of Layoffs~SAVE UMKC THEATRE and Labor Studies Program Suspended: What Now?
The British Elections: What Do They Mean for Labor and Big Bucks for the Boot Heel: Good Deal or Not?
Peter Moscowitz, How to Kill a City and Jonathan Rosenblum, Beyond $15
Gordon Lafer: The 1% Solution and Builidng the Kansas City Skyline
Detroit: Are the Engines Restarting?
EBSA-Employee Benefits Security Administration and Trumping the Disabled
New York College for Some and How Anti-Hunger Programs Are Constrained by Their Funders
May Day: The Original Labor Day
Hate Has No Home Here
WYCO: Pick Your Zipcode to Live Longer and Reconstructing the Quindaro Ruins
Why is Donald Trump President?
Why Boycott Driscolls & An Economy Without Immigrants
Why Are So Many Millennials Socialists? And Refinery Town
Tradeswomen Building Bridges to India and Kids March for One Race-Human Race
The Challenge Manufacturing Strike Victory and From Male to Female: How One Engineer Learned About Discrimination
Chow Chop Suey: Food & the Chinese American Experience and The One-Eighth-Cent Sales Tax: Pro and Con
Surviving and Fighting Right to Work
The Jeff City Firing Squad Aims at Prevailing Wage Workers & Public Employees
Wentzville School Bus Drivers Organize and Federal Workers in the Cross Hairs (Again)
Repeal and Replace the ACA: One Giant Death Panel?
Gunpowder Girls of the Civil War and Fannie Never Flinched
The Million Women March on the Inauguration and Fixing the Pipelines: Plenty of Jobs
Meet Trump’s Cabinet Picks for Labor and Education
What to Do About Bad Bosses: A Labor Notes Tutorial
Unlawful Retaliation: EEOC’s New Rule for Workers Who File Complaints and the 1986 Flight Attendants Strike against TWA
Which Side Are You On? Right to Work or Right to Freeload
The Supreme Court On Unions & Trump Tweets On Carrier
Pray for the Dead: A Musical Tale of Morgues, Moguls, and Mutiny
Serving Up Justice on Campus
Prisoners on Strike and Stress on the Line
Oil vs Water: The Dakota Access Pipeline Debate – Another Blue-Green Standoff?
All the Single Working Ladies and BRIDJ to Gig or a Good Union Job?
The New Overtime Rules and Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind
Student Debt: The New Indentured Servitude
Teachers and Administrators Defend the KCMO Schools
St. Louis Higher Ed organizing: Is It Becoming a Movement?
The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself and The First War on Terror 1919
The South African Miner Massacre and the Spirit of Marikana and Hesitant Comrades: The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement
Four Generations: Life On The East Side, Family, Work and The Police
The KC Rent Bubble and Citizens for Community Benefits Agreements
Manny Ness: Southern Insurgency; The Coming of the Global Working Class and Chiluba Musonda: From Zambia to KC
Tim Sheard: Someone Has to Die and Will Uber Take Over the Bus System?
David Cay Johnston on Donald Trump and TPP: On a Roll; Still Flushable!
The Voting Rights Initiative and Will the Real Jesse James Please Stand Up?
Evicted: Without a Home, Everything Else Falls Apart and the Struggle of Mexican Teachers against the State
SURJ-Standing Up for Racial Justice and Hillary on Labor
Kamala Lopez: “Equal Means Equal”
How Police Unions Protect Their Own and Chuck Ross: Mavericks Money and Men: The AFL, Black Players and the Evolution of Modern Football
American and Mexican Teachers Fight Back
Luke Shafer: $2 a Day; Living on Almost Nothing and “You’re Fired” – Trump on Labor (2nd in series on candidates)
We Can Do It! Women in the Trades
The New Operating Engineers Union Health Clinic: Will It Start a Trend?
Do Harley’s Dreams of Personal Freedom Include Its Workers?
The UAW Identity Crisis: Is It Still An Auto Union? Green Party Candidate Jill Stein on Labor, the Economy and Immigration (first of a series on candidates)
Teachers March Again and The Management Myth
Pullman Porters: The Making of the Black Middle Class in KC
Thomas Frank: Listen Liberal and Postal Banking: Is the Time Now?
Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary and Jamala Rogers: Ferguson Is America
The New Center for Neighborhoods and Disabilities Integration Act
Will Verizon #NeverSettle? and The Peabody Cave-in
Corporate Raiders Crash the Classroom
U.S. Senate Cafeteria Workers Cookin’ Up Trouble and Tips: A Throwback to Slavery
Human Race – One Race and Teamsters on the Cutting Board
Should We Get Rid of the Electoral College? And Earl Wheeler: Lessons from KC Labor’s Past
Everyone’s Marching on Washington this Spring and Summer
A Streetcar Named Non-Union and MO Legislature to KC: “Bend Uber”
Welcome to “Pure” Michigan
MU Graduate Teaching Assistants Denied Union Representation Election and A Preview of the Upcoming Labor Notes Conference
Father Lefty Empowering Youth and The New Education Reform: Will Children Still Be Left Behind?
What’s New from the Chicago Teachers? and Xenophobia: Are We a Nation of Anti-Immigrants?
TIFF: Arrested Development and Honeywell Not Well
The Presidential Frontrunners: Who Is a Friend of Labor?
An Interview with Visionary Organizer Jane McAlevey
Harold Gibbons and Ernest Calloway: Fighting for Total Person Unionism and Enemies in Blue
Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy vs Jimmy Hoffa and Labor Responses to COP21
Junior Rat-race: the Problem of Over-testing and Hippy Scabs Are Still Scabs
The Rise Of The “Sharing Economy” (ENCORE) & Top Labor Stories of 2015
Race to Nowhere: Reforming K-12 and A Holiday Wish: No War but the Class War
Welcome to Hotel TIF and Richard Wolff: Co-ops Work
David Cay Johnston: In-Shoring Prosperity and Why Are Canadian Unions Stronger?
Rock-a-bye Baby The Wages Is Crazy and Why Are Kansas Teachers Fleeing?
Community Health Workers – Good Deal for Workers and Patients
Sheet Metal Workers and Sierra Club Team Up to Demand Missouri Move toward Energy Efficiency and What’s Up with Auto Bargaining?
The Uber Economy; A Raw Deal and What’s in a Name? Profiling in Hiring
Daddy, What’s the Middle Class
Ai-Jen Poo: Age of Dignity and Familias Unidas Take on Driscoll
Where Do the Candidates Stand on Immigration? And Pioneer Women
When Should Unions Endorse?
Our Walmart Relaunch, & Should Police Unions Be in the House of Labor?
Jessica Neuwirth: Bring Back the ERA and Is Charter Partners Just Sneaky Privatization?
Will There Be a British Labor Party Resurrection with JC? and More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing
Women’s Equality Week – Two Pioneer Working Women Tell Their Stories
Rev. William Barber: America Lacks Heart and Bad Ass Teachers Unite
Bullies In The Workplace
A Socialist for President? Not the First Time and When Tenure Goes, What Happens to Academic Freedom?
Honduras: Laboratory for Privatization
A Victory for Bangladesh Garment Workers and Erik Loomis: The Corporate Outsourcing Catastrophe
The Origins of Right to Work by Cedric deLeon and Obamacare Survives the Supreme Court: What’s Next?
Why 15? The Kansas City Minimum Wage Increase
Breaking into Fortress Europe: Migrants Across the Mediterranean
ERISA’s Demise: The Domino Effect and Huelga: Story from a Casino Utility Closet
Labor History in Two and Venezuela: Who’s the Real Threat?
Matt Kennard: On the Trail of the Global Capitalist Racketeers and the High Public Cost of Low Fast Food Wages
Does the World Bank Work for Working People? and Pioneer Women
A 100 Years Ago, Socialists Dominated MOKAN Labor – History of the Socialist Party and Women Battle Sexual Harassment at Ford Chicago
Teacher Wars: The Most Embattled Profession
AT&T on a Race to the Bottom? Home Healthcare Workers Fighting for a Union
Joe Hill’s Last Will with John McCutcheon
Pioneer Women: UAW 31’s Vicky Hale and Adjunct Professors Organize
From Public to Charter to Virtual: What’s Next for the Schools?
Current Labor Struggles in Oil and Auto and on the Docks