Heartland Labor Forum

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.

Last September, inmates in prisons across the nation went on strike against exploitative work, saying it’s a lot like slavery. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll find out […] The post Prisoners on Strike and Stress on the Line appeared first on KKFI.

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, our show is “Oil vs Water: The Dakota Access Pipeline Debate”. Is this another Blue-Green standoff of jobs versus the environment? We’ll look […] The post Oil vs Water: The Dakota Access Pipeline Debate – Another Blue-Green Standoff? appeared first on KKFI.

Women are now the majority of the workforce. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we ask how money, work, marriage and divorce mix these days. Then, you’ve probably seen […] The post All the Single Working Ladies and BRIDJ to Gig or a Good Union Job? appeared first on KKFI.

Are you exempt from overtime pay on your job? New rules going into effect December 1st may entitle you to extra pay if you work more than forty hours in […] The post The New Overtime Rules and Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind appeared first on KKFI.

Are you looking at a lifetime of debt slavery to pay off your college education? Tune in this week to the Heartland Labor Forum as economist Hossein Bahmaie and researcher […] The post Student Debt: The New Indentured Servitude appeared first on KKFI.

Our schools are under attack. Recently the Kansas City Call asked whether the KCMO School District, with its low test scores, should even have partial accreditation. This week on the […] The post Teachers and Administrators Defend the KCMO Schools appeared first on KKFI.