Heartland Labor Forum

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: Five reasons you should go to the People’s March for public education and social justice in Washington DC July 8-10. Then, what’s management […] The post Teachers March Again and The Management Myth appeared first on KKFI .

After the Civil War until World War II, one of the few good jobs open to African American men and a few women as Pullman Porter or Maid. To be […] The post Pullman Porters: The Making of the Black Middle Class in KC appeared first on KKFI .

KC area native Thomas Frank has written about why Kansans vote against their self-interest and about how the right wing took over America. Now he looks at the Democrats in […] The post Thomas Frank: Listen Liberal and Postal Banking: Is the Time Now? appeared first on KKFI .

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, it’s two authors with two books. We’ll talk to Gerald Horne about his book on the great singer and activist Paul Robeson. The […] The post Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary and Jamala Rogers: Ferguson Is America appeared first on KKFI .

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, hear about the new partnership between UMKC’s Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Design and the community to address the challenges facing neighborhoods […] The post The New Center for Neighborhoods and Disabilities Integration Act appeared first on KKFI .

Will Verizon never settle?. . . with its unions? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk about the strike and the stakes for workers in the communications industry. […] The post Will Verizon #NeverSettle? and The Peabody Cave-in appeared first on KKFI .

Standardized testing. Why are students and teachers around the country so critical of it? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, two teachers will discuss how testing strips important protections […] The post Corporate Raiders Crash the Classroom appeared first on KKFI .

Thursday on the Heartland Labor Forum: Did Senators go hungry today alongside the workers who feed them? We’ll hear about the strike in the Senate Cafeteria. It’s part of the […] The post U.S. Senate Cafeteria Workers Cookin’ Up Trouble and Tips: A Throwback to Slavery appeared first on KKFI .

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: Hear about the remarkable march last week of Longfellow Elementary students with banners declaring “One Race -Human Race. Kids are learning to build […] The post Human Race – One Race and Teamsters on the Cutting Board appeared first on KKFI .

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: The Electoral College – that obstacle to direct election of the President put into the Constitution by the framers. Did they have a […] The post Should We Get Rid of the Electoral College? And Earl Wheeler: Lessons from KC Labor’s Past appeared first on KKFI .

On April 14th Teamsters will be in Washington protesting pension cuts. On April 17th and 18th labor, civil rights, environmental and student organizations will surround the Capitol with a Democracy […] The post Everyone’s Marching on Washington this Spring and Summer appeared first on KKFI .

Will jobs on the new KC streetcars be good jobs? We’ll find out from the union that represents the Area Transportation Authority bus drivers, ATU Local 1287 this week on […] The post A Streetcar Named Non-Union and MO Legislature to KC: “Bend Uber” appeared first on KKFI .

The exit of manufacturing jobs from Michigan in recent decades turned it into a rust belt, and now the rust is more than a metaphor. It’s in the poisoned water […] The post Welcome to “Pure” Michigan appeared first on KKFI .

Add one more black eye for The University of Missouri-Columbia: Refusal to bargain or recognize a union. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk with graduate teaching assistants […] The post MU Graduate Teaching Assistants Denied Union Representation Election and A Preview of the Upcoming Labor Notes Conference appeared first on KKFI .

The passing of Father John Wandless late last year left his What U Can Do program to politically empower minority youth in limbo. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, […] The post Father Lefty Empowering Youth and The New Education Reform: Will Children Still Be Left Behind? appeared first on KKFI .

In the past few years the Chicago Teachers Union has won a reputation as one of the most innovative and participative unions in the U.S. This week on the Heartland […] The post What’s New from the Chicago Teachers? and Xenophobia: Are We a Nation of Anti-Immigrants? appeared first on KKFI .

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we look at two successful grassroots citizen campaigns in Kansas City. First in the wake of BNIM’s withdrawal from the Crossroads project, we […] The post TIFF: Arrested Development and Honeywell Not Well appeared first on KKFI .

Curious about Presidential candidate positions on labor issues? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we feature spokespeople and info about Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz and the Donald […] The post The Presidential Frontrunners: Who Is a Friend of Labor? appeared first on KKFI .

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: In the 1950’s St. Louis labor leaders Harold Gibbons and Ernest Calloway championed a new kind of labor movement embracing workers as “total […] The post Harold Gibbons and Ernest Calloway: Fighting for Total Person Unionism and Enemies in Blue appeared first on KKFI .

It was a take-no-prisoners kind of a fight. That’s the battle between US Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa which filled the headlines and the courtrooms in […] The post Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy vs Jimmy Hoffa and Labor Responses to COP21 appeared first on KKFI .

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk about the Junior Rat-race in our schools known as testing. According to our guest, it’s over-testing and the harm it does […] The post Junior Rat-race: the Problem of Over-testing and Hippy Scabs Are Still Scabs appeared first on KKFI .

New Year’s Eve is one of the biggest cab hailing nights of the year, so on this week’s Heartland Labor Forum, it’s a good time to revisit one of the […] The post The Rise Of The “Sharing Economy” (ENCORE) & Top Labor Stories of 2015 appeared first on KKFI .

On Christmas Eve, on the Heartland Labor Forum, two union maids will bring you our annual Peace on Earth show. It’s not your typical peace on earth show though. It’s […] The post Race to Nowhere: Reforming K-12 and A Holiday Wish: No War but the Class War appeared first on KKFI .

Suddenly TIF is back in the news with the hotel and Crossroads projects. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll find out why citizens are once again mad about […] The post Welcome to Hotel TIF and Richard Wolff: Co-ops Work appeared first on KKFI .

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we interview David Cay Johnston, tax expert and investigative journalist. We’ll ask him about offshore tax loopholes, record breaking inequality, out of control […] The post David Cay Johnston: In-Shoring Prosperity and Why Are Canadian Unions Stronger? appeared first on KKFI .