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Kansas City’s Judy Ancel, of the Heartland Labor Forum, Receives Prestigious Joe Hill Award
Judy Ancel accepting the Joe Hill Award. Every year the Labor Heritage Foundation awards the Joe Hill Award at the Great Labor Arts Exchange. The Joe Hill Award honors leaders and artists who [...]
Labor community celebrates Kansas City World Cup selection, warns of human rights issues
Area unions and worker organizations join soccer fans in celebrating our selection as a host city for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The World Cup will showcase Kansas City as a world-class city. In addition [...]
Union members appointed to Kansas City’s Climate Protection Steering Committee
Mayor Quinton Lucas has appointed Shirley Mata, of UAW Local 249, and Bo Moreno, Business Manager of IBEW Local 124, to Kansas City, Missouri’s Climate Protection Steering Committee. The Climate Protection Steering Committee is co-chaired [...]
Union News
Power In Numbers: Kansas City Union Organizers Confront Contractor
Organizers from several unions in Kansas City had grown suspicious of labor practices at a major apartment complex project in [...]
90 Year Old Union Member continues to Gives Back to His Community
For the last five years, Joe Padilla, a Marine veteran, has been helping IBEW Local 53 with an annual toy [...]
IUPAT DC 3 PROVIDES OPPORTUNITY FOR MAYOR LUCAS TO VISIT TRAINING CENTER
During National Apprenticeship Week, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas accepted the invitation to join IUPAT DC 3 apprentices, members and leaders [...]
KC Labor Beacon News Stories
Kansas City AFL-CIO’s Duke Dujakovich Assists in Federal Reserve Search for New President
The Kansas City Federal Reserve Building Esther George, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, announced on May 25th, 2022 that she intends to retire in January of 2023, as required by the Federal Reserves mandatory retirement [...]
Kansas City Labor Beacon Exclusive Q&A: Jackson County Executive Frank White
Jackson County Executive Frank White What do labor unions mean to you? Most of us were raised with the belief that if you work hard, you should be able to get ahead. There are no guarantees that it will be easy, or that [...]
Missouri AFl-CIO Hires Carson Pope as New Political Organizer for Western Missouri
There is a good chance you’ve already met Carson Pope, the new Political Organizer for the Missouri AFL-CIO. He has made it a mission to be at every event possible as he learns the ins-and-outs of the union world in the western half of Missouri. [...]
NLRB Makes Bold Move, Seeks to Outlaw Employers’ Mandatory Anti-Union Meetings
President Biden’s nomination to lead the National Labor Review Board might just have been molded out of clay and brought to life by union leaders across the country, because National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo continues to surpass expectations. General Counsel Abruzzo has [...]
