by admin | Dec 7, 2000 | Health / Medicine
Management at the Menoreh Medical Center in Kansas City will now have to deal with a union. The hospital’s nurses have voted to join a union. 57% of those voting agreed to go along with the union. Menorah nurse Judy Kaptelzinsky says patients won’t have to...
by admin | Sep 19, 2000 | Politics / Govt
Assistant prosecutors in Jackson County have voted to join a union. More than 90% of about 70 assistants who work in Kansas City have voted to join Local 42 of the International Association of Fire Fighters. A spokesman for the group says it chose the...
by admin | Aug 19, 2000 | News
The rejection of a union by workers at the Lazy Boy furniture company in southwest Missouri has brought a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board. A September 11th hearing is scheduled in Neosho. The Paper Allied Industrial Chemical and Energy Workers...
by admin | Aug 11, 2000 | Politics / Govt
You can expect organized labor to play an important role in efforts to elect the Gore-Lieberman ticket in November. That’s the word from John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO. He says his organization will be very active in Missouri. It is one of the so-called...
by admin | Aug 5, 2000 | Education
The head of the Kansas City teachers union says the school district might not have such a big teacher shortage if it treated teachers better. The district is short 250 teachers, with the opening of schools only 24 days away. Kansas City is setting up an...