Heartland Labor Forum

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll ask about Detroit: Are the Engines Restarting? We start with a history tour of Detroit labor from its heyday in auto and […] The post Detroit: Are the Engines Restarting? appeared first on KKFI .

Who is protecting our pensions and what’s fiduciary responsibility, anyway? We’ll find out on this week’s Heartland Labor Forum when we talk to the Employee Benefits Security Administration. Then, the […] The post EBSA-Employee Benefits Security Administration and Trumping the Disabled appeared first on KKFI .

Should college be affordable for All? Join us this week on The Heartland Labor Forum for an in-depth analysis of two high-profile state and federal initiatives to make college tuition-free.  […] The post New York College for Some and How Anti-Hunger Programs Are Constrained by Their Funders appeared first on KKFI .

On May Day 2017, workers filled the streets all over the world for international workers day. In the US, many immigrants protested and struck. Here in Missouri, no one was […] The post May Day: The Original Labor Day appeared first on KKFI .

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, our show is called “Hate Has No Home Here.” We’ll cover reaction to the Olathe shooting at the Solidarity In Community meeting there […] The post Hate Has No Home Here appeared first on KKFI .

Does your zip code determine how long you’ll live? Find out this week on the Heartland Labor Forum about a new health report on Wyandotte County. Then, some local history: […] The post WYCO: Pick Your Zipcode to Live Longer and Reconstructing the Quindaro Ruins appeared first on KKFI .

Why Is Donald Trump President? What did union members have to do with him winning the electoral college? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum three labor educators from Michigan, […] The post Why is Donald Trump President? appeared first on KKFI .

Why Boycott Driscolls & An Economy Without Immigrants. It’s strawberry season, but before you bake that pie, look for the Driscoll label and don’t. There’s a boycott by workers in Mexico […] The post Why Boycott Driscolls & An Economy Without Immigrants appeared first on KKFI .

Ben Tulchin, Bernie Sanders’ pollster, and head of Tulchin Research, will join us on this week’s Heartland Labor Forum to discuss whether millennials who voted progressive in 2016 will continue […] The post Why Are So Many Millennials Socialists? And Refinery Town appeared first on KKFI .

In India, 40% of construction workers are women. Last January, a delegation of American tradeswomen traveled to India to build bridges and fight for the rights of women in the […] The post Tradeswomen Building Bridges to India and Kids March for One Race-Human Race appeared first on KKFI .

Last month, a diverse group of workers at Challenge Manufacturing near the airport showed Kansas City that even in the era of Trump, you can win a strike. Find out […] The post The Challenge Manufacturing Strike Victory and From Male to Female: How One Engineer Learned About Discrimination appeared first on KKFI .

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: In her new book Chow Chop Suey, food historian Anne Mendelson traces the history of the Chinese in America through food in Chinese […] The post Chow Chop Suey: Food & the Chinese American Experience and The One-Eighth-Cent Sales Tax: Pro and Con appeared first on KKFI .

Unless Missouri unions develop a way to block it, Missouri will become the 28th right to work state on August 28th. How can our unions – and workers – survive […] The post Surviving and Fighting Right to Work appeared first on KKFI .

Republicans in Jefferson City are gunning for unions. Now that right-to-work has passed, they’re going after the standard of living of construction workers and the rights to representation of public […] The post The Jeff City Firing Squad Aims at Prevailing Wage Workers & Public Employees appeared first on KKFI .

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to AFT union leader Scott Ciafullo about how a group of school bus drivers organized and about some of the challenges […] The post Wentzville School Bus Drivers Organize and Federal Workers in the Cross Hairs (Again) appeared first on KKFI .

“And then this magical amazing policy came around that we started talking about. We started talking about the ACA, where they decided that, ‘hey, maybe being born is not something […] The post Repeal and Replace the ACA: One Giant Death Panel? appeared first on KKFI .

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we bring you the hidden history of women workers in the 1800s. In Gunpowder Girls of the Civil War, poor immigrant girls and […] The post Gunpowder Girls of the Civil War and Fannie Never Flinched appeared first on KKFI .

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum—“Women Rising Up To Put Hatred and Oppression Down”. We’ll hear from women at the Washington, DC march Jan. 21st and find out how […] The post The Million Women March on the Inauguration and Fixing the Pipelines: Plenty of Jobs appeared first on KKFI .

President Trump was elected largely on the promise to bring good jobs back to the US, but do his nominees for the Departments of Labor, Commerce, and Education reflect that […] The post Meet Trump’s Cabinet Picks for Labor and Education appeared first on KKFI .

Kansas City workers: do you have a boss at your job making your daily life a living hell? Never fear. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, tune in for […] The post What to Do About Bad Bosses: A Labor Notes Tutorial appeared first on KKFI .

Did you know that almost 45 percent of charges received by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are for retaliation for filing a complaint? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, […] The post Unlawful Retaliation: EEOC’s New Rule for Workers Who File Complaints and the 1986 Flight Attendants Strike against TWA appeared first on KKFI .

Missouri Republicans are poised to deliver a body blow to the state’s private sector unions. It’s called right to work although it has little to do with either rights or […] The post Which Side Are You On? Right to Work or Right to Freeload appeared first on KKFI .

The Heartland Labor Forum, in its first show of 2017, asks, how stacked is U.S. labor law against workers? We’ll talk to author and attorney Julius Getman about his new […] The post The Supreme Court On Unions & Trump Tweets On Carrier appeared first on KKFI .

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll have a condensed version of the musical Pray for the Dead: A Musical Tale of Morgues, Moguls, and Mutiny, in which workers […] The post Pray for the Dead: A Musical Tale of Morgues, Moguls, and Mutiny appeared first on KKFI .

Campus workers from dining halls to grad students are organizing. On this week’s Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll look into how they’re Serving Up Justice On Campus. The post Serving Up Justice on Campus appeared first on KKFI .