The LMC will postpone its Jan. 26 Mid-Level Leadership Program session due to the prevelance of COVID. The first Spring session will now be Feb. 1 and the final session March 23.
Thanks to the Kansas City Chiefs for the thrilling divisional playoff game yesterday. We also appreciate the work of members of SEIU Local 1 who provide much of the support for Arrowhead Stadium operations and the contractors who built and maintain the stadium.
Labor-Management Council of Greater Kansas City
2022 Public Issues Agenda
The Labor-Management Council takes positions on public issues where labor and management share an interest and at least 75 percent of board members from both sides agree as part of our mission is to enhance collaboration and trust between labor and management and the community. The 2022 agenda:
Federal
•Any future stimulus funds include significant vertical construction projects.
•Support continuation of Davis-Bacon in any new federal infrastructure program.
•Oppose federal “right-to-work.”
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Missouri
•The LMC supports reasonable and effective economic development incentives. While the LMC supports ensuring that tax credits and other incentives are cost effective, we want to preserve those tax credits crucial to economic development such as the historic tax credit, tax increment financing and enact an angel tax credit and data center incentives.
•The LMC opposes legislation to impose “right-to-work.”
•The LMC supports maintaining and increasing Medicaid eligibility and adequate provider reimbursement.
•The LMC supports state funding for a comprehensive transportation plan.
•The LMC supports Prevailing Wage.
•The LMC supports development of a statutory framework for public employee collective bargaining in Missouri to reduce uncertainty for workers and for public employers.
•The LMC opposes legislation that discriminates against transgendered persons.
•The LMC opposes legislation that prohibits employers from requiring workers to be vaccinated (except for religious and health exemptions).
•The LMC opposes the change in funding formula for the Kansas City Police Department contained in Missouri SB 678 and SJR 38. The LMC supports adequate funding for the KCPD but opposes changing the formula in current law for determining city revenues and opposes changing the Missouri constitution’s prohibition of unfunded state mandates on local government.
•The LMC supports state of Missouri matching funding for the Health Sciences Development District.
Watch: Unemployment Insurance, Workers Compensation, Utility Rates & Energy Capacity, Education/Kansas City School District.
Kansas
•The LMC supports reasonable and effective economic development incentives.
•The LMC supports continued funding for the comprehensive transportation plan.
•The LMC opposes immigration reform proposals that would put the burden of I-9 verification on contractors for subcontractors. Verification responsibility should fall only on the direct employer of those workers.
•The LMC supports reinstatement of a local option for prevailing wage in Kansas.
•The LMC supports maintaining and increasing Medicaid eligibility and adequate provider reimbursement.
•The LMC opposes legislation that discriminates against transgendered persons.
•The LMC opposes legislation that prohibits employers from requiring workers to be vaccinated (except for religious and health exemptions).
Local
•The LMC supports renewal of the Kansas City, Mo. Health Levy on the April 5 ballot.
•The LMC opposes elimination of the Kansas City, Mo. city earnings tax until an alternative is in place.
•The LMC supports prevailing wage on projects with economic development incentives.
•The LMC supports modernization of the Kansas City International Airport.
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