Heartland Labor Forum

Despite a Democratic majority for 18 months, the National Labor Relations Board has moved at a glacial pace. Recently though, there’s been a flurry of new decisions.  Is it too […] The post New NLRB Rules for Organizing and Fighting Times by Jonathan Melrod appeared first on KKFI .

Tonight, on the Heartland Labor Forum:  Last November, AFT and AAUP announced they were organizing 1500 faculty and staff at the Un iversity of Kansas.  This week on the Heartland […] The post Rock Chalk Union – Organizing at KU and M-Power – The Multilateral Partnership for Organizing, Worker Empowerment, and Rights appeared first on KKFI .

Are you one of those people who thinks that the kids are lazy? That they can’t get to work on time? No work ethic. Are going to make the U.S. […] The post Busting the Myth of Lazy Youth appeared first on KKFI .

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond and retired AFSCME and civil rights leader Bill Lucy on labor and Martin Luther King. Then we’ll ask Missouri’s freshman legislator Jaime Johnson about the new […] The post Fred Redmond and Bill Lucy on MLK and Rep Jamie Johnson on the MO Leg appeared first on KKFI .

We have an inspiring story of retirement. After 31-years at the post office Willa Robinson turned her passion for reading into a gem of a bookstore uplifting black history, music […] The post Ex-Postal Worker Willa has a Passion for Books and New Rules for Gig Workers appeared first on KKFI .

Labor radio programmers and podcasters from around the country, from Kansas City and from as far away as England will get out their union made crystal balls and tell us […] The post Labor’s 2023 Crystal Ball: Will It Be Good for Working People appeared first on KKFI .

Justin Akers Chacon author of The Border Crossed Us argues that our polices of open borders for goods and closed borders for people hurt all American workers. He makes the […] The post 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? appeared first on KKFI .

Y’all know the story of Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. What if it were a musical put on by the San Francisco Mime Troupe? Huh? Mime on the […] The post The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Red Carol appeared first on KKFI .

Tonight, on the Heartland Labor Forum:  Has your metropolitan newspaper turned into a zombie? Is local news coverage just a fading memory? We’ll look at the corporatization of the media […] The post The Fading of Local For-profit Print Media and Rise of the Non-Profits and Independence Firefighters’ Fight for Health Care appeared first on KKFI .

Do you ever think about the fact that just about everything you buy passes first through a warehouse? Then it gets delivered in a truck to a store or your […] The post Jerry Wood of Teamsters Local 955 and Stories from the 1970s of Women in Non-Traditional Jobs with Jenny Agee – Trucker and Teamster Organizer appeared first on KKFI .

Ellen Cassidy was a founder of 9 to 5 the working women’s organization that became a union and and a movie with Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. We’ll […] The post Ellen Cassedy, Working 9 to 5 and The UAW’s First Direct Election for Top Officers appeared first on KKFI .

The Kansas City labor community lost Herb Johnson over a year ago on October 18th 2021. On this Thanksgiving the Heartland Labor Forum will remember Herb’s life and honor him […] The post Remembering Herb Johnson a Year after his Death appeared first on KKFI .

Have you dreamt of a world where your job gives you fulfillment and respect? Where income inequality and discrimination have disappeared? Where we have health care for all? We will […] The post Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation & Class by Michael Yates and Will Jay Ashcroft Take Away Your Right to Read? appeared first on KKFI .

The US Supreme Court is about to hear a case that could have devastating consequences for unions. The issue is whether unions can be sued in state court for economic […] The post Will the Supreme Court Preempt the Right to Strike? and The Return of OSHA appeared first on KKFI .

We’ll find out why zookeepers in Salina Kansas (yes there’s a zoo there) just voted to be represented by a union. Then, railway track workers in the BMWE voted against […] The post The Zookeepers’ Union and Why the BMWE Rejected the Rail Contract appeared first on KKFI .

School librarians weigh in on recent book banning, how students are affected, and the recently proposed rule by the Missouri Secretary of State to ban books at public libraries. Are […] The post Librarians Speak Out about Book Banning and the Kansas City Fair Contractor Alliance appeared first on KKFI .

The Kansas City Missouri School District just announced its Blueprint 2030, an ambitious plan of transformation including the closing of ten schools. We’ll talk to Jason Roberts, president of the […] The post What’s the Teachers’ Union Have to Say about the KCMO School Closings? and Ironworkers’ Dave Coleman appeared first on KKFI .

On Labor Day ROC United introduced the Restaurant Worker Bill of Rights, with model local, state, and federal legislation. Find out how they want to add some rights to your […] The post ROC United’s New Restaurant Bill of Rights and KC Tenants New Political Arm appeared first on KKFI .

We talk with Daisy Pitkin, organizer, about her book On the Line which takes us into a union organizing drive in an industrial laundry in Arizona. You’ll see joys, obstacles […] The post Daisy Pitkin: On the Line and Does the State Department Union Bust? appeared first on KKFI .

As outrage at oppressive and exhausting working conditions grows among rail workers, they’re pushing for a showdown with the carriers, but the Biden administration has switched the track for that […] The post Will There Be a National Railway Strike? And Wire Women Lighting It Up – What It’s Like to Be a Female Union Electrician appeared first on KKFI .

Do you get lost in all the mumbo jumbo of incentives for developers and wonder what they cost taxpayers, local government, school districts and even the public library? This week […] The post TIFs and Other Incentives: Welfare for Rich Developers? appeared first on KKFI .

The Alliance for Retired Americans, a grassroots labor organization with 4.4 million members in 39 states, has just expanded to Kansas. We’ll talk to its leader Rich Fiesta. Then labor […] The post The National Alliance for Retired Americans Goes to Kansas and What Liberals Get Wrong about the New Deal appeared first on KKFI .

If you’re working class, and you’re wondering if the political class has done anything for you lately, tune in to this week’s Heartland Labor Forum where Rep. Sharice Davids and […] The post Rep. Sharice Davids and KS AFL-CIO’s John Nave on What Has Congress Done for Us Lately appeared first on KKFI .

Large classrooms and too few teachers are nothing new to education, but this year as shortages pile up, we’re asking, “Where have all the teachers gone?  We’ll try to answer […] The post Where Have All the Teachers Gone? and Tales from the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum appeared first on KKFI .

School shootings have us all on edge, but as school starts up again this month, our educators are speaking out strongly against guns in schools. Should teachers be armed? Should […] The post Teachers with Guns/Students with Guns appeared first on KKFI .