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Rob Larson, Mastering the Universe; The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class and Cory Haala, When Democrats Won the Heartland
Rural, Working Class Candidates Are Challenging the Status Quo
What Amazon Workers Can Learn from the Successes (and Failures) of the Fight for 15 and A Century of the Railway Labor Act!
The Race for Missouri Senate: Keri Ingle vs. John Patterson plus a couple of MO House Races
“The system’s down and I’ve got an 82-year-old woman whose check didn’t arrive?” Social Security Workers Speak Out
The Race for Kansas 1st Congressional District and State House Districts 3 and 6
Scandinavian Social Democracy – Why Not? and Devin Thomas O’Shea, The Veiled Prophet: White Supremacy, and the Suppression of the Working Class
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