The LMC Board of Directors unanimously approved the 2024 Issues Agenda. Public policy involvement helped spur the LMC's founding and continues to be an avenue to building better relationships and improving our community. The 2024 agenda:

2024 LMC Issues Agenda

The Labor-Management Council of Greater Kansas City was born with a labor-management collaboration on a key public issue of mutual concern. In the 45 years since, the LMC has found labor-management consensus on hundreds of public issue positions at the federal, state and local levels. To take a position, the LMC requires that at least 75% of board members from both labor and management agree. The agenda below reflects the consensus views of our Board for 2024:

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 changes in unemployment compensation contained in SB 745 and companion House bills that reduce benefits based on the statewide unemployment rate.
•The LMC supports state of Missouri matching funding for the Health Sciences Development District.
•The LMC supports extension of the Federal Reimbursement Allowance for Medicaid
•The LMC supports data-supported initiatives to make the community safer such as Blairs’ Law
•The LMC supports measures to improve access to affordable, quality child care and early childhood
education
•The LMC supports reductions in sales taxes on items essential to workers and families
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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.
•The LMC supports measures to improve access to affordable, quality child care and early childhood education
•The LMC supports reductions in sales taxes on items essential to workers and families

Local
•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 renewal of the 3/8ths cent Jackson County sales tax for stadiums
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