From The Kansas City Business Journal:
A. Zahner, Kansas make group’s labor-parternships list
Kansas City Business Journal
The American Rights at Work Education Fund named Kansas City-based architectural sheet metal company A. Zahner Co. and the State of Kansas in its annual “Labor Day List: Partnerships that Work.”
The list, in it’s fourth year, recognizes 10 successful partnerships between employers and their employees’ labor unions, Josh Goldstein, press secretary for American Rights a Work, said Tuesday.
“We try to point out leaders in industry that treat workers right by working with the unions,” Goldstein said. “It shows that you don’t have to be anti-union to be successful.”
A. Zahner, a 250-employee company, successfully collaborated as equal partners with workers and their unions to craft innovative strategies on compensation, performance, and productivity to meet business goals and address challenges, the list said.
The State of Kansas was included on the list for strides taken to ensure economic opportunities and rights for its 11,478 union employees.
The list credits Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for reaching out to the labor community and devising a new framework to organize the state’s bargaining units. The two unions representing Kansas state employees — the American Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — merged to create theKansas Organization of State Employees.
Sebelius also was one of three recipients of the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights awards given in June for her leadership in advancing workers’ rights in Kansas.
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