Episodes

  • Rachel Kushner: Novelist of Activism, Revolution and Intrigue and What’s a Workers’ Center?

    Rachel Kushner: Novelist of Activism, Revolution and Intrigue and What’s a Workers’ Center?
    Jul 1 2025
    We are thrilled to welcome back award-winning novelist Rachel Kushner for a second in-depth interview—this time about her gripping new corporate-surveillance, bad guy spy-thriller, Creation Lake. This is a twisted tale […] The post Rachel Kushner: Novelist of Activism, Revolution and Intrigue and What’s a Workers’ Center? appeared first on KKFI.
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    1 hr
  • What's a Member-Run Union? Carl Rosen, President of UE – the United Electrical Radio and Machines Workers Union

    What's a Member-Run Union? Carl Rosen, President of UE – the United Electrical Radio and Machines Workers Union
    Jun 24 2025
    The United Electrical, Radio and Machine workers is a union that’s much more than just those occupations. UE as it’s called, has organized thirty thousand graduate workers in the last […] The post What's a Member-Run Union? Carl Rosen, President of UE – the United Electrical Radio and Machines Workers Union appeared first on KKFI.
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    1 hr
  • Two Books: David Roediger: An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education and Eric Blanc: We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is R

    Two Books: David Roediger: An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education and Eric Blanc: We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is R
    Jun 17 2025
    KU Labor Historian David Roediger is a scholar of white working-class studies. His new memoir, An Ordinary White; My Anti-Racist Education chronicles growing up in a sundown town and then […] The post Two Books: David Roediger: An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education and Eric Blanc: We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big appeared first on KKFI.
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    59 mins
  • UAW’s Support of Tariffs and Jeremy Brecher: the Green New Deal from Below

    UAW’s Support of Tariffs and Jeremy Brecher: the Green New Deal from Below
    Jun 11 2025
    There’s a lot of controversy about Trump’s tariffs for auto. Is it just spectacle, or could they actually lead to more domestic auto production and at what cost? We’ll talk […] The post UAW’s Support of Tariffs and Jeremy Brecher: the Green New Deal from Below appeared first on KKFI.
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    1 hr
  • Can We Save NIOSH? and Labor for Palestine

    Can We Save NIOSH? and Labor for Palestine
    Jun 3 2025
    Trump dumped NIOSH – the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health? We’ll ask if we can save it and why it’s important to workers. Then many unions in the […] The post Can We Save NIOSH? and Labor for Palestine appeared first on KKFI.
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    1 hr
  • Licking Our Wounds: A 2025 Missouri Legislature Wrap-Up

    Licking Our Wounds: A 2025 Missouri Legislature Wrap-Up
    May 26 2025
    Last November Missouri citizens made their voices heard at the ballot box in favor of abortion access and paid sick leave for workers. Then during the last week of the […] The post Licking Our Wounds: A 2025 Missouri Legislature Wrap-Up appeared first on KKFI.
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    1 hr
  • Labor Leader Series: Darcy Wood and Our Right to Read Is Under Attack

    Labor Leader Series: Darcy Wood and Our Right to Read Is Under Attack
    May 22 2025
    Americans have many questions these days about government services like the postal service that are under attack. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll visit with Darcy Wood, President […] The post Labor Leader Series: Darcy Wood and Our Right to Read Is Under Attack appeared first on KKFI.
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    1 hr
  • Alan Reuther: From Flint to Selma: How Roy Reuther Shaped Labor & Civil Rights in America and Bert Nash Mental Health Workers Organize

    Alan Reuther: From Flint to Selma: How Roy Reuther Shaped Labor & Civil Rights in America and Bert Nash Mental Health Workers Organize
    May 13 2025
    UAW founder Walter Reuther was famous, his brother Roy wasn’t, but he made important contributions to both the labor and civil rights movements. Roy’s son, Alan joins us this week […] The post Alan Reuther: From Flint to Selma: How Roy Reuther Shaped Labor & Civil Rights in America and Bert Nash Mental Health Workers Organize appeared first on KKFI.
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    1 hr