Heartland Labor Forum

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.