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Heartland Labor Forum
Heartland Labor Forum is Kansas City's only program about the workplace. It is produced by and for our working people. We have been agitating on the air since 1989. Find out who is busting unions and who is fighting back. We are a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network #laborradiopod
KC is all excited about new streetcars, but City Manager Troy Schulte wants them on the cheap. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Amalgamated Transit Union President JP Walker about the city’s plans to run street cars nonunion and take money out of the bus budget to do it. Then, we interview bandleader Lance Canales, in town for the Folk Alliance Convention. Lance spearheaded The Deportee Headstone Project, for the nameless deportees who died in a 1948 plane crash recounted in a song by Woody Guthrie. A video of Lance’s musical work can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeCstLTB0El#t=45 .That’s the Heartland Labor Forum, Thursday at 6PM, rebroadcast Friday at 5AM.
