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  • 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 min
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Social Security Workers Speak Out

    Social Security Workers Speak Out
    May 6 2025
    Former Commissioner Martin O’Malley says Social Security could collapse within just a few months. Social Security workers report bedlam at work, and their union leader Everett Kelley says Elon Musk […] The post Social Security Workers Speak Out appeared first on KKFI.
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  • HLF-May1-2025-May Day! – Songs, History, and Rants to Celebrate Worker Power

    HLF-May1-2025-May Day! – Songs, History, and Rants to Celebrate Worker Power
    Apr 30 2025
    It’s May Day and this week the Heartland Labor Forum is celebrating International Workers Day with songs to raise the spirit, an interview from 1997 with Studs Terkel on the […] The post HLF-May1-2025-May Day! – Songs, History, and Rants to Celebrate Worker Power appeared first on KKFI.
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    1 h