Heartland Labor Forum
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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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It's Labor History Month - plan your vacation with a map of labor sites and Quindaro - some local history
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May 27, 2026 |
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Mid-Continent Library Workers Organize and Retiring Texas AFL-CIO President Rick Levy
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May 19, 2026 |
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Motown & the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries and the Kansas City Public School Foundation
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May 11, 2026 |
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KU Pharmacists Organize!
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May 06, 2026 |
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Raiding the Heartland by William D. Lopez and The Missouri Legislature’s Labor Caucus
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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The KC Port Authority Subsidies and Our Schools and Will Killing the State Income Tax Cost Working People More? You betcha!
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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The New Bus Riders Union and IATSE Local 31 is Staffing the World Cup
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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The Annoyance Economy and Missouri Workers Center Organizing Restaurant Workers
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Celebrating 50 Years of Free Agency in Baseball
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Singing No Kings and Hunger Is a Union Issue
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Jeff City Misery – A Legislative Update
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Kansas Legislative Update and ATU’s Nic Miller in Our Labor Leader Series
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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CoreCivic in Leavenworth: Reformed or Human Rights Abuser? We’ll Talk to Prison Guards and Residents
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Whose Got the Power? By Dave Kamper and Parents for KC Kids
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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From the Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins to Minneapolis Some News and Lessons from other Labor Shows
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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The AI Bubble??? and Challenges of Social Work in a Shrinking Welfare State
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Peter Cole on Dockworker Resistance to Arms Shipments and John Miller: Health Insurance for 20 Million is at Risk
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Half Price Book Workers Win a Union and Union Buster Supreme: The Pittsburgh Post Gazette
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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A Union Member’s Bill of Rights and Deep Fission: Is It Safe?
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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United Electrical Workers: 1st Union to Come Out Against War with Venezuela and Have Politicians and the Media Lied Us into War on Venezuela?
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Our Annual Crystal Ball Show: What's in Store for the Working Class in 2026?
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Best of Heartland Labor Forum in 2025 - part 2
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Best of HLF n 2025 - part 1
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Resistance Teach-In with the Guy from ET (aka Peter Coyote)
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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We Ask: What Are Unions Doing about Members’ Mental Health?
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Randi Weingarten: Why Fascists Fear Teachers and Wage Theft: Employers Steal Billions from Workers’ Wages Each Year
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Thanks for the Labor and Work Songs
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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KU Med Hires Union Buster to Stop Pharmacy Techs from Organizing and Union Leader Series: Joey Flickner of the Painters Union
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Bernie Sanders and AOC at the Eugene Debs Foundation Award Ceremony on Debs’ Vision for Labor and Human Solidarity
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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KU Professors Are Long Overdue for their First Contract and Can Labor and Management Really Cooperate?-An Interview with Bob Jacobi
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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The Future of Social Security and Shutdown and Resistance
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Kansas City’s Development Incentives and Responsible Bidder Ordinances
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Can Unions Live without the National Labor Relations Act? A Roundtable Discussion
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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America’s Top-heavy Economy and Marcella Bencivenni: How Italian Immigrants Shaped the US Labor Movement
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Was UAW President Walter Reuther Assassinated? and What Would a Pro- Worker Tariff Policy Look Like?
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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The Pittsburgh Post Gazette Workers Wonder How Long Can a Strike Last? And Gerrymandering Missouri? With Rep Keri Ingle
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Creeping Fascism??? - Jason Stanley: Erasing History and A Young People’s Guide to Fascism
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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New Union Leader Matt Harris of Plumbers Local 8 and Donna Birks Takes the Lead at LEPCI
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Respect Missouri Voters Wants to Ban Politicians from Overruling the Will of the Voters and Boeing St. Louis on Strike
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Former NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. She was the best we’ve had and Trump fired her
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Cuba Through the Eyes of Washburn University Students
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Labor Leader Series: Federal Unions and Workers in the Crosshairs of DOGE
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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What the Boss Doesn’t You To Know. . .and NAFTA-USMCA Renegotiation: Where Is Trade Justice?
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Richard Wolff: How Will Trump’s Economic Plans Change Our Working Class?
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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How to Have a Successful Strike and Should We Get Rid of Taxes on Tips? It’s KKFI’s SUMMER PLEDGE DRIVE
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Who’s Raising Hell in KC? Boots on the Ground and the Kansas City Defender
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Rachel Kushner: Novelist of Activism, Revolution and Intrigue and What’s a Workers’ Center?
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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What’s a Member-Run Union? Carl Rosen, President of UE – the United Electrical Radio and Machines Workers Union
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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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 Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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UAW’s Support of Tariffs and Jeremy Brecher: the Green New Deal from Below
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Can We Save NIOSH? and Labor for Palestine
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Licking Our Wounds: A 2025 Missouri Legislature Wrap-Up
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May 26, 2025 |
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Labor Leader Series: Darcy Wood and Our Right to Read Is Under Attack
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May 22, 2025 |
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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
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May 13, 2025 |
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Social Security Workers Speak Out
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May 06, 2025 |
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HLF-May1-2025-May Day! – Songs, History, and Rants to Celebrate Worker Power
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Remembering the British Miners’ Strike after 40 Years with Miner John Dunn
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Labor Leader Series: Dustin Himes from Bricklayers & Allied Craftsworkers Local 15 and Rep Tobias Schlingensiepen: Fighting Fascism from Germany to KS
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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How Do We Overcome Internal Division in Unions? and Beneath REI’s Green Sheen: Union Busting, Debt Bondage, and Partnership with Eco-Criminals
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Layoffs at Haskell Indian Nations University: Treaty Violation? And Property Tax Reform: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Why Has America’s Greatest Labor Progressive: Frank P. Walsh Been Forgotten? and The School District Bond Issue with Dr. Jennifer Collier
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Will the Missouri Legislature Undo the Will of the Voters? and Former AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff: Love Is Solidarity in Action
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Federal Unions Fight Back
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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The Workers Strike Back Conference and Julie Greene on Who Built the Panama Canal and Trump’s Bullying
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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David Bacon on Domestic Workers Organizing and Nancy MacLean: Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Explaining Tariffs and How They Affect the Working Class and Hidden in Plain Sight: the $8.5 trillion in Untaxed Income of the Rich
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Freeman’s Challenge; The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit by Robin Bernstein and The KC Campaign to End Gender Violence in the Workplace
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Nuggets of Gold: Processed Chicken and the American Diet by Patrick Dixon and The Life and Death of an American Worker by Alice Driver
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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What’s Responsible Bidder Language? and Are There Dire Days Ahead for Labor Under Trump?
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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“The Union Changed My Life” UFCW’s Laura Kelly and Union Leader Series: New KC Federation of Teachers President David Price
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Public Transit Union Fights Service Cutbacks
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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The Best of 2024 of the Heartland Labor Forum
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Blue Collar Empire — The AFL-CIA and Trump’s Labor Department Pick
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Heartland Labor Forum’s Annual Crystal Ball Show
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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David Kingsley Asks: Is Medicare Advantage a Scam? and Shifting Gears; Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? and IRIS Workers Organizing
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Thanks for the Labor Music
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Missouri Initiative Debrief on Amendment 3 and Prop A and The Right to Read Coalition
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Where Does the Labor Movement Go from Here? and Labor Leader Series: CWA Local 6327’s Tanya Holmes
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Teresa Ghilarducci: Is Your Employer Selling Off Your Pension? and HELU, Higher Education Labor United
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Two Books Perfect for Halloween: Not All Fun and Games and Building Power, Breaking Power
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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News Guild Leader John Schleuss Challenging Lords of a Dying Industry and Union Leader Series: Firefighters 781’s Mike Veit
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Three Hot Missouri House Races
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Two Hot State Senate Races and Is Biden the Most Pro-Labor Prez?
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Stephanie L. Canizales, Without Parents Or Papers: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States and Hot Kansas Legislative Races
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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On The Clock; What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane and Leadville Colorado: Labor History at 10,000 Feet
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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What Do You Know About the Fair Labor Standards Act? and IBEW 124 Wins Paid Family Leave
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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The Problems with Nursing Home Jobs and Disconnected Call Center Workers II
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Si Kahn at 80: Honoring a Life of Song and Activism
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Two Books: Debbie Goldman’s Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age and Jake Friedman’s The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation’s Golden Age
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Project 2025, Trump and Harris on Immigration and KCMO School District’s International Welcome Center
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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The New Plan to Fleece Workers’ Pensions and IBEW Local 53’s Ben Bush
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Is It Really the End of Lean Production? and KC and the Pregnancy Fairness Act
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Why Are They Trying to Outlaw Rank Choice Voting? And Ethan Marcotte, You Deserve a Tech Union
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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What the F*** Is Wrong with the Postal Service and Mizzou Workers Ask When the University Will Bargain in Good Faith
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Why Asset Managers Own the World and Presente!
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Latest Decisions on Unions from the Supreme Court and The East Side Freedom Library
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee Helps Demystify How to Organize and Doug Genens – Oral Labor Historian
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee Helps Demystify How to Organize and Doug Genens – Oral Labor Historian
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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The Politics of Trade Policy and Do We Need More Militarized Police?
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Michael Zweig and his New Book Class Race & Gender; Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism and Jenny Agee: Truck-Driving Woman
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Operating Engineers Local 101 Union Leader Aaron Brown and Vets and Unions Go Fishing for Freedom
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Jayhawks Flock to the Union and Labor Song Covers
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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The Legislative Sausage Grinder: What happened This Year in Jeff City and Topeka?
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May 28, 2024 |
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Art Works: How Art Enlivens Social Struggles
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May 21, 2024 |
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Reassessing the Legacy of Walter Reuther
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May 14, 2024 |
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Ron Carey: From UPS Driver to Teamster President and What Constitutional Rights Do Corporations Have?
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May 07, 2024 |
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The Voucher Scam and the Construction Contractor Tax Dodge
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Comparing Our Labor Law with Europe and Canada and Gerald Epstein: Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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ZEDE Prospera: A Libertarian Fantasy with Nightmare Results and Bob Bruno’s What Work Is: How Worker See Work
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Third Parties: Are They Spoilers or Do They Strengthen Democracy?
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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East Palestine: Still Derailed One Year Later and Blood in the Machine: Workers vs. Automation
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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The 3/8th cent sales tax pro and con
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Librarians vs. the Book Ban and Kansas City Labor’s 40 Political Club
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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The Flight Attendant Rebellion: A History of the Independent Federation of Flight Attendants at TWA
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Les Leopold: Wall Streets War on Workers and What’s the Kansas Legislature Cookin’ Up for Us?
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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What Are they Cookin’ up This year in Jeff City? and Marijuana Dispensary Workers Organize
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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A Dictator Goes on Trial and Hamilton Nolan: The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Work Under Occupation and Unions Come Out for Ceasefire in Gaza
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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The Work of a Jazz Musician and Some Great Labor Songs
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Is Trump a Fascist? and Kevin Hendrickson of Pipefitters Local 533
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Foxconned by Lawrence Tabak and The Chevron Deference Case: A Corporate Power Grab?
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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The Best of 2023 on the Heartland Labor Forum
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Labor’s Crystal Ball for 2024
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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UAW’s Southern Strategy – an Assessment and Nanni Balestrini’s We Want Everything – A Strike Novel
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Chad Pearson, Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen & Employers . . . – and – from Prison Guard to Union President Lynn Fields Is Making Prisons Safer for All
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Can Labor Seize the Movement Moment? – and – How Jane McAlevy Transformed the Labor Movement
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Alise Martiny: Woman at the Top – and – Steve Gercone of the Roofers Union
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Best of 2023 on the Heartland Labor Forum
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Teamsters for a Democratic Union: Is It in the Vanguard of Labor?
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Banned but not Forgotten; The State of KCMO School Libraries – and – Challenges and Opportunities in the Midwest Since COVID – EPI
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Amazon Delivers — Bad Faith and What’s in the New Auto Contracts?
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Two Books: Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice and Migration As Economic Imperialism
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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What the Oppenheimer Film Missed
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Reggie Thomas – What do Laborers Do? and Jason Roberts: Why the Shortage of Teachers and Other School Personnel?
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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The Lives of Maritime Workers and Does the Jones Act Really Protect Their Jobs?
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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When Will Farmworkers Get Labor Justice? and JwJ’s Erika Smiley: The Future We Need; Organizing for a Better Democracy in the 21st Century
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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What’s the Matter with Kansas Workers Comp? and The New McCarthyism
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and How to Blow the Whistle on Unsafe Conditions at Work and Not Get Fired
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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The Perils of Working Non-Union and Immigrant and Heartland Women in Trades Need for Childcare
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Worker Philosophy – Philosophy of Work and Robert Cherny: Harry Bridges; Labor Radical, Labor Legend
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Shawn Fein, Bernie Sandeers and UAW 31 President Dontay Wilson on the Auto Negotiations
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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The Life of a Dispatcher and Machinists Leader Scott Brown
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Summer Reading: Bill Fletcher, Jr. The Man Who Changed Colors and Working Class Giant: The Life of William Z. Foster
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Should the AFL-CIO Endorse the Right to Abortion? and UPS: What Do the Workers Think?
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Essential Workers for Union Democracy: a Growing Movement and The Ghost Workers Behind AI
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Organizing Starbucks and Trader Joes
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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21st Century Union Busting and What’s in the Meany Labor Archives?
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Whitewashing Labor and American History
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Ahmed White: Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers and Isn’t It Time to Nationalize the Railroads?
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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The Return of Child Labor — Again???
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Sheltered Workshops and 22¢ an Hour The Fight to Ban the Subminimum Wage
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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The New Labor Beacon under KC AFL-CIO Ownership and Labor Leader Profile: United Steelworker District 11 Director Emil Ramirez
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Teamsters Team Up to Fight UPS
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May 30, 2023 |
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The Fight Against Wage Theft and Jon Carpenter on the Clay County Fair Contracting Ordinance
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May 23, 2023 |
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Candidates in Two Hot KC City Council Races: Darrell Curls and Michael Kelly and Chris Gahagan and Nathan Willett (invited)
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May 16, 2023 |
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Robert Pollin: Just Transitions to a Green Economy and New Stadium: Who Will Pay? Who will Benefit?
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May 09, 2023 |
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American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten with Local 691’s Jason Roberts on the Attack on Teachers and Whitewashing of Education
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May 01, 2023 |
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Inside the Sewing Lab Apprenticeship Program and Traveling Musicians Local 1000
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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What Happens When Work Disappears? and Management Rights vs Workers
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Riding the Bad Bills’ Clown Car through Kansas and Missouri
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Labor’s Friday Folklorist, Saul Schniderman
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Derailed in Ohio! What About Kansas City? What’s Coming Thru A Rail Near You?
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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New Building Trades Council Leader Ralph Oropeza and SMART Local 2’s Greg Chastain
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Labor Power & Strategy: Organizing around the Choke Points
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Staffing Our Hospitals: Nurses vs HCA and The Cost of Worker Misclassification
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Sherman Smith, Reflecting on the Kansas Legislature and Kansas City Public Schools Update from AFT Local 691 – New Superintendent and big Contract Win!
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Beyond Team Management and Teamsters Delivering a New UPS Contract
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Trucking Country; The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy by Shane Hamilton and Labor Leader Series: Amber Gibson Navigating the Future for Argosy Casino Workers
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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New NLRB Rules for Organizing and Fighting Times by Jonathan Melrod
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Rock Chalk Union – Organizing at KU and M-Power – The Multilateral Partnership for Organizing, Worker Empowerment, and Rights
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Busting the Myth of Lazy Youth
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Fred Redmond and Bill Lucy on MLK and Rep Jamie Johnson on the MO Leg
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Ex-Postal Worker Willa has a Passion for Books and New Rules for Gig Workers
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Labor’s 2023 Crystal Ball: Will It Be Good for Working People
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Justin Akers Chacon: The Case for Opening th Border and Why Doesn’t the NLRB Cover Ag and Domestice Workers? Might I Have to Do with Race?
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Red Carol
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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The Fading of Local For-profit Print Media and Rise of the Non-Profits and Independence Firefighters’ Fight for Health Care
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Jerry Wood of Teamsters Local 955 and Stories from the 1970s of Women in Non-Traditional Jobs with Jenny Agee – Trucker and Teamster Organizer
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Ellen Cassedy, Working 9 to 5 and The UAW’s First Direct Election for Top Officers
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Remembering Herb Johnson a Year after his Death
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation & Class by Michael Yates and Will Jay Ashcroft Take Away Your Right to Read?
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Will the Supreme Court Preempt the Right to Strike? and The Return of OSHA
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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The Zookeepers’ Union and Why the BMWE Rejected the Rail Contract
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Librarians Speak Out about Book Banning and the Kansas City Fair Contractor Alliance
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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What’s the Teachers’ Union Have to Say about the KCMO School Closings? and Ironworkers’ Dave Coleman
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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ROC United’s New Restaurant Bill of Rights and KC Tenants New Political Arm
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Daisy Pitkin: On the Line and Does the State Department Union Bust?
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Will There Be a National Railway Strike? And Wire Women Lighting It Up – What It’s Like to Be a Female Union Electrician
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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TIFs and Other Incentives: Welfare for Rich Developers?
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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The National Alliance for Retired Americans Goes to Kansas and What Liberals Get Wrong about the New Deal
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Rep. Sharice Davids and KS AFL-CIO’s John Nave on What Has Congress Done for Us Lately
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Where Have All the Teachers Gone? and Tales from the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Teachers with Guns/Students with Guns
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Former NLRB Chair William Gould, and Carson Pope on Missouri labor politics
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Profile of two union leaders: CWA organizer Jeff Hayes and ATU 1287 President Will Howard
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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4000 Union Troublemakers – A Report from the Labor Notes Conference
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Inflation and Monopoly: What’s the Connection? And David Bacon: More Than a Wall – 30 Years of Photos
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Max Alvarez-The Work of Living and Revisiting Joy Silk – can the NLRB Make It Easier to Organize?
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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A Pregnant HLF Volunteer Investigates Maternity Leave and The New AFL-CIO Leadership
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Ellen Bravo and Larry Miller: Tales of Struggle and The Long Wait for Missouri Medicaid
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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The Postal Reform Act and UMKC Student Tenant Union
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Is the Right to an Abortion a Working Women’s Issue? Is it Common Sense?
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Dystopian Novelist Dave Eggers, Author of The Every and the Circle
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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The Need to Ban Anti-Union Captive Audience Meetings
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Why Teachers Need Unions and Starbucks Update
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Teachers and a Librarian Slam CRT and Book Banning
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May 27, 2022 |
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Kansas Legislative Wrap-up with the Kansas AFL-CIO’s John Nave and Union Leaders Series: Chris Fairbanks – Independence Firefighter
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May 17, 2022 |
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The Missouri Apprentice Ready Program and Kim Kelly with her new Untold History of American Labor
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May 17, 2022 |
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Solidarity Without Borders – the Partnership of UE and FAT and Ranked Choice Voting
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May 03, 2022 |
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Remembering the Railway Shopmen’s Strike and What’s the State of Current Rail Negotiations?
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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El Golpe: US Labor, the CIA, and the Coup at Ford Mexico – an Interview with Rob McKenzie
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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A Profile of Jason Starr of UAW 249 and The Labor Beacon’s New Faces
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Woody Guthrie- Songs and Art, Words and Wisdom and SEIU Healthcare and the Health Levy
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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New Books: Joe Burns: Class Struggle Unionism & N. Iskander: Migrant Workers in Qatar
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Is the Missouri Legislature Out to Destroy Public Schools?
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Davos Man by Peter Goodman & An Interview with NLRB General Council Jennifer A. Abruzzo
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Searching for Good Bills among the Bad in Jeff City
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Warrior Met Coal: How to Survive a Strike and Coal Miner Songs
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America and Unchecked Mergers with the Institute for Local Self Reliance
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Remembering Bill Onasch
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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The Leadville Irish Miners Memorial and Workplace Monitoring: Is Your Boss Spying on You?
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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New Union Leaders: IBEW’s Todd Howerton and Firefighters’ Dan Heisman
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Who Is to Blame for the Current Inflation? We’ll Ask Richard Wolff and KC Google Workers Organize
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Mapping the Current Strike Wave and Replacing Permanent Replacement
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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KC’s New Wage Theft Ordinance and Duke on Biden
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Why Stamping Out Racism Is Good for White People (and everyone else too) Heather McGhee in KC with Terrence and Bridgette from Stand Up KC
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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New Union Leaders Series: Kevin Gard, Cement Masons & Who’s In the Working Class?
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Two Victories for Workers: Chilean Workers Can Now Purge the Pinochet Constitution and Autoworkers Vote for Democracy
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Getting There for XMAS: Supply Chain Blues and Will Santa Deliver?
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Teamsters Vow to Organize Amazon and the Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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A Labor Tribute to Herb Johnson (1943-2021)
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Remembering Herb Johnson & Keith Nelson from the 2011 show on TWA
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Unions and Vaccine Mandates and Is CRT: Turning Parents Against Teachers?
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Workplace Shootings: One ATU Leader’s Plea for Workplace Mental Health and Remember, Remember Striketober in November?
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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More Perfect Union: Labor News and Lessons for Labor from the Afghan War
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Voting in Missouri: The Old Rules Again to Limit Voting and Asylum for Sale – Adrienne Pine’s book on the Asylum Industrial Complex
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Teamsters International: Is the Tide Changing? And Biden’s NLRB
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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CEOs Who “Love” Unions Everywhere but in Their Own Companies and Indigenous Peoples’ Day
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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AIRPORT! Who Is Doing the Work?
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Two New Union Leaders in KC
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Workers Unite Film Festival and The Alabama Coal Strike
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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What Direction for the Post-Trumka AFL-CIO?
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Women, Equal Pay, Access to City Jobs and life support for the ERA
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Ed Asner at KKFI in 2013 – a Heartland Labor Forum Special Program
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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LABOR DAY! A Medley of our Volunteers’ Favorite Labor Books and Songs
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Steven Greenhouse, Labor Reporter and UAWD – Will Autoworkers Win the Right to Vote?
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Robert Ovetz on Global Class Struggle and Remembering Chuy Negrete
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Two Labor Leaders Coming and Going: Michael Bell and Jason Roberts
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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KC Tenants and the People’s Housing Trust
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Medicaid Expansion in Missouri AT LAST!
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Unified Government of Wyandotte County KCK Mayor/CEO Candidate Forum & Voices from the Frito-Lay Picket Line
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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What’s the Matter with Thomas Frank?
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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The Latest Scam Scare: Critical Race Theory
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Are One-Man Trains Comin’ Down the Track? And Help Wanted: Heartland Labor Forum Volunteers
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Jeremy Brecher’s Updated ‘Strike’
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Two Women Labor Leaders: Alise Martiny and Antoinette Robinson
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Dan McCrory, How Capitalism Killed the Middle Class and Rigged the System and New AFSCME Local 500 President Reginald Silvers
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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How We Failed Essential Workers
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Missouri’s School Voucher Problem & Eric Lotke: Union Made
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May 25, 2021 |
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The Jobs Guarantee: Is Full Employment Possible?
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May 16, 2021 |
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Long Live Scabby the Rat! and Sarah Lloyd Green and the Kansas City General Strike
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May 11, 2021 |
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A is for Asylum: How We Talk about Immigration and Judy Ancel: The Heart of the Labor Forum
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May 04, 2021 |
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May the Earth Have Another Day – Celebrating Earth Day and May Day
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Jane McAlevey: A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing and the Fight for Democracy
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Missouri Legislative Sum-up with Rep. Crystal Quade and Barbara Washington
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Toni Gilpin, The Long Deep Grudge and Organizing Google
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Organizing the Lawrence Journal-World & How the Ultra-Rich Profit from Racial Injustice
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Charter Schools: Good or Bad for Teachers/Kids/Education?
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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The Kansas City Earnings Tax Election & Lessons from the Last Stand of the Steelworkers in Homestead, PA
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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What Difference Does A Union Make & Organizing Amazon in Alabama
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Anne Feeney — A Musical Remembrance
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver on the State of Congress & Reversing New Agricultural Policies in India
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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What’s Cookin’ In the Kansas & Missouri Legislatures?
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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The Biden Administration’s New Labor Secretary & Policies On Latin America and Migration
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Isn’t It Time for Paid Leave?
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Mike Stout: The Homestead Steel Mill: The Final 10 Years & Love & Solidarity, the Amazing Life of Rev. James Lawson
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Working Class History Podcast & Milan, MO’s Rural Workers Community Alliance
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Nurses & Techs Still Fighting COVID
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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New Year’s Eve: Looking Back/Looking Forward
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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The Truth About Santa’s Workshop
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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How Did the PO Do in the Election & COVID Slams Youth & Women Workers
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Jake Hummel & The PRO Act
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Two Lies & A Truth About Thanksgiving
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Election Results & How Did the Working Class Vote?
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Revisiting Harvest of Empire & The Hard Road of Hope
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Options for New Employment & Are We Ready for A Shorter Work Week?
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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School’s Back, or Is It? & The Historical Role of Labor Parties
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Election 2020 – More Interviews & Dirty Missouri
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Imagining A Post-COVID Future: Roundtable
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Election 2020: Interviews with Candidates
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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David Roediger: The Sinking Middle Class & Rose Feurer: Mother Jones-Her Monuments & Museums
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Outrageous! Non-Profit Union Busters & MO Cuts for Kids
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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John Boyd: Labor Defender & KC Tenants ROCK!
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Cuba & Scalia’s DOL
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Louis DeJoy & Privatizing the USPS
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Sports Unions & Black Lives Matter
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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100 Years of Women’s Suffrage & Ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment in Missouri
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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CWA in a Time of Change & Solidarity Under Siege: Labor in El Salvador
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Teachers’ Views On School Reopenings
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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A Travel Guide to Labor Landmarks & Killing Asylum
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Who Killed Berta Caceres & UMKC’s Budget Crisis: The Workers Pay
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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SEIU Healthcare & Medicaid Expansion In Missouri
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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Cuba Healthcare & Migrants In A Pandemic
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Is Smithfield A Public Nuisance & It’s Not Police Unions, It’s Police Repression
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Comedian Lee Camp with the Corona Report and Pandemic & Climate Change
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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No Money, Not Funny: Budget Cuts in Kansas & Missouri
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions & Who’s Not Workin’? Getting Unemployment
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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The Deficit! So What? & Why America Needs Socialism
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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Cuba: How Socialists Fight A Pandemic & Christopher Martin: No Longer Newsworthy
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May 26, 2020 |
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Emily Twarog: Politics of the Pantry & Jessica Podhola Paints the Future for Labor
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May 21, 2020 |
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Picking Crops In A Pandemic & Honduras: How Not To Fight A Pandemic
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May 14, 2020 |
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May Day from Quarantine and A Primer on the New Pandemic Paid Leave Law, the FFCRA
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May 07, 2020 |
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“Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook”
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Pat Jones Maclin – KC Labor’s Conscience COVID 19 and your rights as workers
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Can Medicare for All Beat Union Healthcare? and Dismantling Labor Rights at the NLRB
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Is TIF Socialism for Corporations?
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Selma at 55 and How Bad Is Voter Suppression?
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Should KC Agree to Zone in Vision Quest? Understanding Socialism
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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KC Tenants take on TEH Realty and Kansas Legislature’s Bad Bills for Workers
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Mar 07, 2020 |
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Interviews with Riders on the Free Buses and Can We Afford Free Bus Rides?
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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Wage Theft: How Do I Protect Myself?
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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Union Neutering Through Team Concept
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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The Employee Benefit Security Administration: Their Mission Is to Protect Your Pension
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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www.organizing.work – a Website about Unions and an Interview with UAW Local 31’s Clarence Brown
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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A Record Year for Strikes: Are We Seeing a New Labor Militancy? and Eric Washington on Football Injuries
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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Worker Rebellion in France and Colombia
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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What’s Ahead in the Missouri and Kansas Legislatures?
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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A Book and a Movie: Democracy Collaborative: The Making of a Democratic Economy and Harriet the Movie
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Dec 27, 2019 |
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Neoliberalism 101 and the Very Un-Neoliberal Bike Co-op
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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Roofers Union Centennial and Youth in the Trades
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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Chicago Teachers Union Bargaining for the Common Good
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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Thanks ILCA for Giving Us that Award – HLF 2019 Radio Winner
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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American Factory: The Clash of Cultures or Just Bare-fisted Capitalism? and New Report on European Investors in the American South
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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Disappearing Poverty 2 and The Tenants Bill of Rights
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Contracts-Contracts – Auto and Metropolitan Community College
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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How Good is Employer-Paid Healthcare?
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Redefining Poverty and The Servant Economy
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Truckers: How Is Government Allowing Increased Hours of Service and Taking a Tax Bite, Too?
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Apprenticeship at Risk and When at Times the Mob is Swayed
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Should Trump Be Impeached? – A Debate
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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Is This a Test? – How Does A Lifetime of Teaching Affect You? An Original Radio Drama
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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Cruise Ship Blues and Two Bills to Protect the Right to Organize and to End Tax Breaks for Outsourcing
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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Miners on the Tracks and Revisiting PATCO
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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News in Depth and Kansas Troublemakers School
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Heartland Labor Forum • Aug. 29, 2019
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Heartland Labor Forum • Aug. 29, 2019
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Jul 28, 2019 |
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Heartland Labor Forum • Aug. 22, 2019
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Jul 28, 2019 |
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Isn’t It Time for Medicaid Expansion? And The Attack on Federal Workers
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Jul 28, 2019 |
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Who You Gonna Call When Your Job Disappears? and Kansas School Bus Drivers: Starving in the Summer?
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Jul 28, 2019 |
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Next Auto Contract: Is the UAW A House Divided?
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Jul 28, 2019 |
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KC Tenants Organize and The Moral Budget
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Special for July 4th: Who Counts in the US and What To do If ICE Comes
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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Temps and The Poverty of Work and Here We Go Again – War in Iran: A Labor Viewpoint
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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One Foot in the Grave – Another Shop Steward Mystery Novel and American Roots: Union Made in the USA Clothing
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Honduras: Report Back from Delegation Investigating Why Migrants Come
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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Don’t Privatize Our Postal Service! And Lee Camp on the Democratic Candidates
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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Herb Johnson: Still Kickin’ for Labor and Eric Blanc: Red State Revolt
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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Labor and The Green New Deal and A Cousin remembers Fannie Lou Hamer – PLEDGE DRIVE!!!
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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Missouri Legislative Wrap-up and A New Book About a Model Labor Leader
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May 30, 2019 |
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United Fruit Company: Rotten Bananas and Keeping America White: US Immigration Policy
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May 23, 2019 |
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Kansas’s New Secretary of Labor, Delia Garcia and Kansas City’s Pay Gap Study
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May 19, 2019 |
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Eugene Debs: American Socialist – The Movie and Herbert March: 1930’s KC Organizer
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May 12, 2019 |
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Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work
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May 02, 2019 |
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Celebrating May Day with a book for teens about Haymarket and Centennial of The Seattle General Strike
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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The Disabilities Integration Act Could Create Jobs and the Attack on Missouri Initiatives II
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Feel the Trickle: the Tax “Cuts”
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Feel the Trickle: the Tax “Cuts”
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Bruce Campbell: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster: Public Betrayal, Justice Denied and A New Labor Caucus for Missouri Democrats
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Bruce Campbell: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster: Public Betrayal, Justice Denied and A New Labor Caucus for Missouri Democrats
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Celebrating Heartland Labor Forum’s 30th Anniversary with our first show: The Eastern Airlines Strike and Railway Workers Speak Out on Safety
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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A Teach-In at the Border
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Teaching the Labor Movement How to Strike
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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Mayoral Candidate Forum with Phil Glynn & the Attack on Missouri Initiatives I
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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Sorry to Bother You, Boots and Lessons of the LA Teachers Strike (Rebroadcast)
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Mayoral Candidate Interview: Henry Klein and Rebuilding Power in Open Shop America
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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Mayoral Candidate Steve Miller & Worker Co-ops
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Medea Benjamin on Iran & Mayoral Forum III with Candidates on Economic Justice Issues
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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New Threats and Promises from Missouri and Kansas Legislatures
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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Labor in Cuba and Trump’s Screw Job on Workers
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Jan 19, 2019 |
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Mayoral Forum II with Candidates on Economic Justice Issues
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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William Kennedy’s Ink Truck and What Do LA Teachers Want?
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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NAFTA 2.0 & Why Labor Radio
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Jan 03, 2019 |
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Will the New NAFTA Stop Oreo–Mexico from Sickening Its Workers?
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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Dana Frank: The Long Honduran Night and Barry Eidlin, Labor and the Class Idea in the US and Canada
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Dec 27, 2018 |
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Community Schools
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Dec 21, 2018 |
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Community Schools
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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Undoing Missouri’s Public Sector and Erik Loomis – A History of America in Ten Strikes
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Dec 07, 2018 |
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Venezuela: The Other Side of the Story and Tex Sample: Working Class Rage
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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Rebroadcast from Sept. 20: How We Defeated Right to Work and Now What?
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Nov 23, 2018 |
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Election Recap on Worker Issues and People Before Profit: The Inspiring Story of the Founder of Bob’s Red Mill
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Election Recap on Worker Issues and People Before Profit: The Inspiring Story of the Founder of Bob’s Red Mill
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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One Job Should Be Enough: The Marriott Strike and ATT Legacy: How about One Contract?
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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Ballot Initiatives: CLEAN and Raise Up Missouri
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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Is the Economy Blowing Bubbles? and Rail Workers Uniting
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Oct 25, 2018 |
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Sweat: A Play about Rustbelt America and The Fall of Wisconsin
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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Two Books about the Decline of Work and the Middle Class: Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work and Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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Middle School Kids Talk Labor History and Bill Fletcher has a novel: The Man That Fell from the Sky
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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Exploring the Psychology of Obedience and Wobs in KC
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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Prop A: How We Defeated Right to Work and Now What?
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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BlackKKlansman: HLF Looks Under the Hood and The Killing of DST
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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Is the Sharing Economy for the Byrds? and Street Fight Radio-WCRS
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Sep 06, 2018 |
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The Attack on Public Employee Unions and How They’re Resisting
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Aug 30, 2018 |
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Voter Suppression of Women and Bernie’s ‘Our Revolution’
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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Trump’s Federal Remix: A New Department of Child Labor and a Private Postal Service?
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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Downtown Shakedown and Bringing Football to Its Knees
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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Kicking the Koch Habit Conference Preview
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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Kicking the Koch Habit Conference Preview
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Jul 28, 2018 |
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Heartland Labor Forum
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Jul 27, 2018 |
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Heartland Labor Forum
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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A Pension Primer for Young People and AT&T: No Legacy of Respect for Workers
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Jul 19, 2018 |
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UPS: What will Brown Do to You? And The Harvey Girls
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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What Trump Gets Wrong about Trade and What They Didn’t Teach You in School about Black and Latinx History
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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Our Disappearing Right to Vote and Is Civil Disobedience Still Relevant?
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Jun 28, 2018 |
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Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain and After the Cheering Stops Cyndy Feasel on Sports Concussions
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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Trumpism in Latin America: Stolen Elections and More Guns, Prisons and Immigrants
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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Quindaro: A Gateway to Freedom and Meet the HLF Feature Writers
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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Lauren Arthur vs. Kevin Corlew and Tiff over TIF in Raytown
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May 31, 2018 |
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A Day in the Life of a Right to Work Ballot Activist and Missouri Legislative Post Mortem
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May 24, 2018 |
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Getting Around Town: Street Cars, Buses, and Street Names
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May 17, 2018 |
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Workers’ Revival Festival – A Preview
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May 10, 2018 |
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Where Unemployment Isn’t Low and Gerald Horne on the Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy and Capitalism in Our Colonial Past
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May 03, 2018 |
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Choke Points; Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain and Goddess of Anarchy; The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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Highlights from Labor Notes and Bill Fletcher on How to Beat Right to Work
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Highlights from Labor Notes and Bill Fletcher on How to Beat Right to Work
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Comp Time or Overtime Pay? And What’s Up with the Airport Deal?
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Apr 09, 2018 |
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Comp Time or Overtime Pay? And What’s Up with the Airport Deal?
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Apr 09, 2018 |
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Lives on the Line Story Slam
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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Lives on the Line Story Slam
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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The Unions Speak Out on the Harley Shutdown and NCAA Players: Workers, Students or Slaves?
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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General Gym and Major Math: Teachers with Guns
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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Will Missouri Gut Prevailing Wage Laws and Class War USA: Dispatches from Workers’ Struggles in American History
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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The Gutting of Our Universities and Forced Arbitration: Surrender Your Rights
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Mar 09, 2018 |
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Charter Schmarter and Triangle Factory Fire Project Play
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Mar 02, 2018 |
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KC’s Entertainment Unions and Charter Schmarter
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Feb 23, 2018 |
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Brexit and British Workers and The Polk School
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Feb 16, 2018 |
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Generation Dollar General and the New Poor People’s Campaign
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Feb 09, 2018 |
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Two Books: Black Detroit and On New Terrain: How Capital Is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War by Kim Moody
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Feb 02, 2018 |
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Blood, Sweat and Fear: Violence in the Auto Industry and The Golden Shower of Tax Cuts
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Jan 26, 2018 |
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The One Device: The Secret History (and Moral Cost) of the iPhone and Panic Buttons for Hospitality Workers
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Jan 05, 2018 |
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Eleanor Goldfield: Paradigm Lost and Religious Freedom May Cost You Your Job
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Dec 29, 2017 |
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Amazon: Walmart of the Internet and Jobs with Justice’s Amazon Wish List
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Dec 22, 2017 |
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Peter Poschen: Decent Work, Green Jobs and the Sustainable Economy: Solutions for Climate Change and Sustainable Development and DACA Workers
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Dec 16, 2017 |
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Emily Twarog: Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food and Consumer Activism in the 20th Century and Sarah Adler-Milstein & John M. Kline: Sewing Hope
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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A Conversation with Historian David Roediger on Race, Labor and Management
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Dec 01, 2017 |
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Thomas Kochen: Shaping the Future of Work and Public Defenders Need a Bailout
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Nov 17, 2017 |
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Janus vs. AFSCME – The Threat to Public Sector Unions
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Nov 10, 2017 |
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Uber’s New Pay to Drive Scheme and Janitors Speak Out
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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Do Japanese Workers Have Rights? And Al Gore’s Inconvenient Sequel
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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The Great Job Creation Scam: Wisconsin’s New “FoxCon” and Subsidizing Robot Jobs
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Oct 19, 2017 |
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The Right to Protest: A Roundtable Discussion
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Oct 12, 2017 |
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Disabling Medicaid and The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Uniting Rail Workers
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Oct 05, 2017 |
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Lane Windham, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of the New Economic Divide and The NAACP Travel Advisory
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Sep 28, 2017 |
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Trump Attack on the Federal Workforce and Does It Pay to Go to College?
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Sep 21, 2017 |
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The Right to Work Signature Campaign and Greitens’ Dark Money
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Sep 14, 2017 |
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Shame on Carl Icahn and Preemption and the Minimum Wage
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Sep 07, 2017 |
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The ACLU: Immigrant Rights
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Aug 31, 2017 |
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Women’s Equality Week: Why Can’t Women TV Anchors Reach Retirement on the Job? And What Does Roe v. Wade Have To Do with Women’s Equality?
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Aug 24, 2017 |
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Will Robots Get Your Job? And Blackballed: Race, Politics, and Football
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Aug 17, 2017 |
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The Politics of Immigration and Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy
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Aug 10, 2017 |
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Is Vo-Tech Shrinking? and Street Medical Care for All
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Aug 03, 2017 |
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A Plan to Put the Brakes on Runaway Inequality and Countering Hate without Feeding The Trolls
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Jul 27, 2017 |
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“Waiting for Lefty” by SAVE UMKC THEATRE Students & Faculty
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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UMKC’s Latest Round of Layoffs~SAVE UMKC THEATRE and Labor Studies Program Suspended: What Now?
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Jul 08, 2017 |
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The British Elections: What Do They Mean for Labor and Big Bucks for the Boot Heel: Good Deal or Not?
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Jul 06, 2017 |
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Peter Moscowitz, How to Kill a City and Jonathan Rosenblum, Beyond $15
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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Gordon Lafer: The 1% Solution and Builidng the Kansas City Skyline
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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Detroit: Are the Engines Restarting?
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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EBSA-Employee Benefits Security Administration and Trumping the Disabled
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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New York College for Some and How Anti-Hunger Programs Are Constrained by Their Funders
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Jun 02, 2017 |
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May Day: The Original Labor Day
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May 26, 2017 |
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Hate Has No Home Here
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May 18, 2017 |
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WYCO: Pick Your Zipcode to Live Longer and Reconstructing the Quindaro Ruins
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May 11, 2017 |
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Why is Donald Trump President?
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May 04, 2017 |
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Why Boycott Driscolls & An Economy Without Immigrants
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Apr 27, 2017 |
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Why Are So Many Millennials Socialists? And Refinery Town
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Apr 21, 2017 |
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Tradeswomen Building Bridges to India and Kids March for One Race-Human Race
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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The Challenge Manufacturing Strike Victory and From Male to Female: How One Engineer Learned About Discrimination
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Apr 06, 2017 |
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Chow Chop Suey: Food & the Chinese American Experience and The One-Eighth-Cent Sales Tax: Pro and Con
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Mar 31, 2017 |
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Surviving and Fighting Right to Work
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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The Jeff City Firing Squad Aims at Prevailing Wage Workers & Public Employees
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Mar 17, 2017 |
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Wentzville School Bus Drivers Organize and Federal Workers in the Cross Hairs (Again)
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Mar 10, 2017 |
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Repeal and Replace the ACA: One Giant Death Panel?
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Mar 03, 2017 |
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Gunpowder Girls of the Civil War and Fannie Never Flinched
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Feb 24, 2017 |
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The Million Women March on the Inauguration and Fixing the Pipelines: Plenty of Jobs
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Feb 17, 2017 |
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Meet Trump’s Cabinet Picks for Labor and Education
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Feb 10, 2017 |
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What to Do About Bad Bosses: A Labor Notes Tutorial
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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Unlawful Retaliation: EEOC’s New Rule for Workers Who File Complaints and the 1986 Flight Attendants Strike against TWA
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Jan 27, 2017 |
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Which Side Are You On? Right to Work or Right to Freeload
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Jan 13, 2017 |
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The Supreme Court On Unions & Trump Tweets On Carrier
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Jan 06, 2017 |
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Pray for the Dead: A Musical Tale of Morgues, Moguls, and Mutiny
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Dec 30, 2016 |
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Serving Up Justice on Campus
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Dec 23, 2016 |
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Prisoners on Strike and Stress on the Line
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Dec 16, 2016 |
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Oil vs Water: The Dakota Access Pipeline Debate – Another Blue-Green Standoff?
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Dec 08, 2016 |
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All the Single Working Ladies and BRIDJ to Gig or a Good Union Job?
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Dec 02, 2016 |
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The New Overtime Rules and Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind
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Nov 25, 2016 |
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Student Debt: The New Indentured Servitude
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Nov 17, 2016 |
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Teachers and Administrators Defend the KCMO Schools
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Nov 10, 2016 |
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St. Louis Higher Ed organizing: Is It Becoming a Movement?
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Nov 04, 2016 |
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The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself and The First War on Terror 1919
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Oct 27, 2016 |
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The South African Miner Massacre and the Spirit of Marikana and Hesitant Comrades: The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement
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Oct 21, 2016 |
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Four Generations: Life On The East Side, Family, Work and The Police
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Oct 16, 2016 |
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The KC Rent Bubble and Citizens for Community Benefits Agreements
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Oct 14, 2016 |
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Manny Ness: Southern Insurgency; The Coming of the Global Working Class and Chiluba Musonda: From Zambia to KC
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Oct 07, 2016 |
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Tim Sheard: Someone Has to Die and Will Uber Take Over the Bus System?
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Sep 30, 2016 |
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David Cay Johnston on Donald Trump and TPP: On a Roll; Still Flushable!
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Sep 20, 2016 |
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The Voting Rights Initiative and Will the Real Jesse James Please Stand Up?
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Sep 14, 2016 |
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Evicted: Without a Home, Everything Else Falls Apart and the Struggle of Mexican Teachers against the State
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Sep 05, 2016 |
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SURJ-Standing Up for Racial Justice and Hillary on Labor
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Sep 01, 2016 |
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Kamala Lopez: “Equal Means Equal”
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Sep 01, 2016 |
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How Police Unions Protect Their Own and Chuck Ross: Mavericks Money and Men: The AFL, Black Players and the Evolution of Modern Football
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Aug 17, 2016 |
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American and Mexican Teachers Fight Back
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Aug 11, 2016 |
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Luke Shafer: $2 a Day; Living on Almost Nothing and “You’re Fired” – Trump on Labor (2nd in series on candidates)
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Aug 02, 2016 |
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We Can Do It! Women in the Trades
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Jul 23, 2016 |
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The New Operating Engineers Union Health Clinic: Will It Start a Trend?
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Jul 18, 2016 |
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Do Harley’s Dreams of Personal Freedom Include Its Workers?
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Jul 11, 2016 |
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The UAW Identity Crisis: Is It Still An Auto Union? Green Party Candidate Jill Stein on Labor, the Economy and Immigration (first of a series on candidates)
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Jul 04, 2016 |
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Teachers March Again and The Management Myth
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Jun 27, 2016 |
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Pullman Porters: The Making of the Black Middle Class in KC
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Jun 20, 2016 |
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Thomas Frank: Listen Liberal and Postal Banking: Is the Time Now?
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Jun 13, 2016 |
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Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary and Jamala Rogers: Ferguson Is America
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May 29, 2016 |
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The New Center for Neighborhoods and Disabilities Integration Act
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May 22, 2016 |
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Will Verizon #NeverSettle? and The Peabody Cave-in
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May 09, 2016 |
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Corporate Raiders Crash the Classroom
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Apr 18, 2016 |
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U.S. Senate Cafeteria Workers Cookin’ Up Trouble and Tips: A Throwback to Slavery
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Apr 11, 2016 |
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Human Race – One Race and Teamsters on the Cutting Board
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Apr 04, 2016 |
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Should We Get Rid of the Electoral College? And Earl Wheeler: Lessons from KC Labor’s Past
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Mar 28, 2016 |
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Everyone’s Marching on Washington this Spring and Summer
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Mar 22, 2016 |
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A Streetcar Named Non-Union and MO Legislature to KC: “Bend Uber”
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Mar 14, 2016 |
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Welcome to “Pure” Michigan
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Mar 08, 2016 |
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MU Graduate Teaching Assistants Denied Union Representation Election and A Preview of the Upcoming Labor Notes Conference
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Feb 27, 2016 |
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Father Lefty Empowering Youth and The New Education Reform: Will Children Still Be Left Behind?
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Feb 23, 2016 |
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What’s New from the Chicago Teachers? and Xenophobia: Are We a Nation of Anti-Immigrants?
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Feb 15, 2016 |
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TIFF: Arrested Development and Honeywell Not Well
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Feb 09, 2016 |
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The Presidential Frontrunners: Who Is a Friend of Labor?
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Feb 02, 2016 |
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Harold Gibbons and Ernest Calloway: Fighting for Total Person Unionism and Enemies in Blue
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Jan 19, 2016 |
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Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy vs Jimmy Hoffa and Labor Responses to COP21
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Jan 09, 2016 |
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Junior Rat-race: the Problem of Over-testing and Hippy Scabs Are Still Scabs
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Jan 05, 2016 |
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The Rise Of The “Sharing Economy” (ENCORE) & Top Labor Stories of 2015
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Dec 29, 2015 |
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Race to Nowhere: Reforming K-12 and A Holiday Wish: No War but the Class War
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Dec 22, 2015 |
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Welcome to Hotel TIF and Richard Wolff: Co-ops Work
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Dec 15, 2015 |
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David Cay Johnston: In-Shoring Prosperity and Why Are Canadian Unions Stronger?
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Dec 09, 2015 |
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Rock-a-bye Baby The Wages Is Crazy and Why Are Kansas Teachers Fleeing?
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Dec 04, 2015 |
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Community Health Workers – Good Deal for Workers and Patients
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Nov 17, 2015 |
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Sheet Metal Workers and Sierra Club Team Up to Demand Missouri Move toward Energy Efficiency and What’s Up with Auto Bargaining?
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Nov 10, 2015 |
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The Uber Economy; A Raw Deal and What’s in a Name? Profiling in Hiring
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Nov 03, 2015 |
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Daddy, What’s the Middle Class
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Oct 26, 2015 |
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Ai-Jen Poo: Age of Dignity and Familias Unidas Take on Driscoll
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Oct 19, 2015 |
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Where Do the Candidates Stand on Immigration? And Pioneer Women
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Oct 13, 2015 |
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When Should Unions Endorse?
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Oct 05, 2015 |
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Our Walmart Relaunch, & Should Police Unions Be in the House of Labor?
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Sep 29, 2015 |
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Jessica Neuwirth: Bring Back the ERA and Is Charter Partners Just Sneaky Privatization?
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Sep 22, 2015 |
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Will There Be a British Labor Party Resurrection with JC? and More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing
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Aug 29, 2015 |
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Women’s Equality Week – Two Pioneer Working Women Tell Their Stories
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Aug 24, 2015 |
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Rev. William Barber: America Lacks Heart and Bad Ass Teachers Unite
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Aug 15, 2015 |
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Bullies In The Workplace
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Aug 08, 2015 |
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A Socialist for President? Not the First Time and When Tenure Goes, What Happens to Academic Freedom?
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Aug 01, 2015 |
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Honduras: Laboratory for Privatization
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Jul 27, 2015 |
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A Victory for Bangladesh Garment Workers and Erik Loomis: The Corporate Outsourcing Catastrophe
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Jul 10, 2015 |
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The Origins of Right to Work by Cedric deLeon and Obamacare Survives the Supreme Court: What’s Next?
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Jul 07, 2015 |
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Why 15? The Kansas City Minimum Wage Increase
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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Breaking into Fortress Europe: Migrants Across the Mediterranean
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Jun 22, 2015 |
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ERISA’s Demise: The Domino Effect and Huelga: Story from a Casino Utility Closet
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Jun 16, 2015 |
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Labor History in Two and Venezuela: Who’s the Real Threat?
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Jun 09, 2015 |
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Matt Kennard: On the Trail of the Global Capitalist Racketeers and the High Public Cost of Low Fast Food Wages
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Jun 02, 2015 |
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Does the World Bank Work for Working People? and Pioneer Women
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May 22, 2015 |
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A 100 Years Ago, Socialists Dominated MOKAN Labor – History of the Socialist Party and Women Battle Sexual Harassment at Ford Chicago
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May 18, 2015 |
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Teacher Wars: The Most Embattled Profession
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May 11, 2015 |
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AT&T on a Race to the Bottom? Home Healthcare Workers Fighting for a Union
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May 04, 2015 |
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Joe Hill’s Last Will with John McCutcheon
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Apr 30, 2015 |
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Pioneer Women: UAW 31’s Vicky Hale and Adjunct Professors Organize
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Apr 21, 2015 |
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From Public to Charter to Virtual: What’s Next for the Schools?
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Apr 13, 2015 |
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Current Labor Struggles in Oil and Auto and on the Docks
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Apr 07, 2015 |