Heartland Labor Forum

KKFI 90.1 FM Kansas City Community Radio 2108 - What Will It Take to Abolish Fossil Fuels? and You too can be a radio star!

This podcast tracks the audio archives for the “Heartland Labor Forum” radio show. The Heartland Labor Forum is Kansas City’s only program about the workplace. It’s radio that talks back to the boss! Whether you’re a union member or your workplace isn’t organized, Heartland Labor Forum (HLF) has stories for you, guaranteed to inspire, educate, or enrage you.

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Heartland Labor Forum

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What Will It Take to Abolish Fossil Fuels? and You too can be a radio star!

Teaching Labor History in K-12 with Rethinking Schools Magazine and Is Trump Planning to Invest Your Retirement in Crypto?

World Cup Workers: Qatar in 2022 and Now

The August 4th Missouri Ballot Amendments #4: and #5 and Union Leader Series: Kevin King from Union Leader to Mayor of Independence

The August 4th Kansas Judicial Election Amendment and Putting the Movement Back in the Labor Movement at Labor Notes

CWA’s Margaret Cook: Attacks on the Public Sector and Half-Priced Books Workers Organize

Thomas Frank and his new book: The People No: A History of Anti-Populism

“Blood Runs Coal” & COVID + Healthcare Workers

“The Southern Key” & Missouri Jobs Centers Amid COVID-19

Homeless in Quarantine & Working Safely In A Pandemic

Mayoral Candidate Forum with Phil Glynn & the Attack on Missouri Initiatives I

Sorry to Bother You, Boots and Lessons of the LA Teachers Strike

Mayoral Candidate Interview: Henry Klein and Rebuilding Power in Open Shop America

Mayoral Candidate Steve Miller & Worker Co-ops

Medea Benjamin on Iran & Mayoral Forum III with Candidates on Economic Justice Issues

New Threats and Promises from Missouri and Kansas Legislatures

Labor in Cuba and Trump’s Screw Job on Workers

William Kennedy’s Ink Truck and What Do LA Teachers Want?

Will the New NAFTA Stop Oreo–Mexico from Sickening Its Workers?

Mayoral Forum I with Candidates on Economic Justice Issues

An Interview with Visionary Organizer Jane McAlevey

The Emerging Green Economy and Daniel Kotzin: the Racist History of US Immigration Law

The Billionaires Have Two Parties; We Need One of Our Own!

Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny: the Rise and Revolt of the College Educated Working Class and Joe Uehlein, Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology

NLRB Update – the New Republican Majority and Working Families Friend Turns 23

The 2026 State of Misery Legislative Sum-up and the Labor Caucus and --- IT'S KKFI SUMMER FUND DRIVE!

Is the Proposed Royals Stadium a Good Deal for Taxpayers?

It's Labor History Month - plan your vacation with a map of labor sites and Quindaro - some local history

Mid-Continent Library Workers Organize and Retiring Texas AFL-CIO President Rick Levy

Motown & the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries and the Kansas City Public School Foundation

KU Pharmacists Organize!

Raiding the Heartland by William D. Lopez and The Missouri Legislature’s Labor Caucus

The KC Port Authority Subsidies and Our Schools and Will Killing the State Income Tax Cost Working People More? You betcha!

The New Bus Riders Union and IATSE Local 31 is Staffing the World Cup

The Annoyance Economy and Missouri Workers Center Organizing Restaurant Workers

Celebrating 50 Years of Free Agency in Baseball

Singing No Kings and Hunger Is a Union Issue

Jeff City Misery – A Legislative Update

Kansas Legislative Update and ATU’s Nic Miller in Our Labor Leader Series

CoreCivic in Leavenworth: Reformed or Human Rights Abuser? We’ll Talk to Prison Guards and Residents

Whose Got the Power? By Dave Kamper and Parents for KC Kids

From the Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins to Minneapolis Some News and Lessons from other Labor Shows

The AI Bubble??? and Challenges of Social Work in a Shrinking Welfare State

Peter Cole on Dockworker Resistance to Arms Shipments and John Miller: Health Insurance for 20 Million is at Risk

Half Price Book Workers Win a Union and Union Buster Supreme: The Pittsburgh Post Gazette

A Union Member’s Bill of Rights and Deep Fission: Is It Safe?

United Electrical Workers: 1st Union to Come Out Against War with Venezuela and Have Politicians and the Media Lied Us into War on Venezuela?

Our Annual Crystal Ball Show: What's in Store for the Working Class in 2026?

Best of Heartland Labor Forum in 2025 - part 2

Best of HLF n 2025 - part 1