Low-wage workers embrace voting power

Striving for political power, advocates for low-wage workers gathered at the Kansas City election board Thursday to register voters. Many people registered to vote for the first time as part of a nationwide effort supporting a minimum wage of ...

Child care workers, among nation’s lowest paid, get support for raises

Kansas City supporters of a $15 an hour minimum wage on Tuesday pressed for extending it to child care workers. People with Standup KC and Jobs for Justice, mothers and child care providers, spoke at a Midtown hearing with the Missouri Department ...

Signs, stickers and rallies: Minimum wage effort flexes muscle  

Many fast-food workers in Kansas City on Tuesday joined a nationwide strike, with walkouts planned in hundreds of cities. Workers in home health care, child care and union members were among those supporting them in a day of rallies and gatherings. They ...

City minimum wage law is no more

File photo. The city council on Thursday repealed a law that would have raised the minimum wage in the city, saying it had no choice. State laws and a recent court ruling made it clear cities cannot raise the wage above the state level of $7.65 ...

KC workers urge city council not to back down on minimum wage

Kansas City fast food worker Terrence Wise, who met with President Obama this week, urged other workers at a rally last night to continue to fight for a minimum wage increase. Fresh back from a visit with President Obama, local McDonald’s ...

Judge orders minimum wage off ballot

File photo. Supporters of a minimum wage hike camped out in front of City Hall in July, 2015. A Jackson County circuit court judge this afternoon ordered election boards to remove the minimum wage increase from the Nov. 3 ballot. The action ...

Judge to rule on stopping minimum wage vote

File photo. A Jackson County circuit court judge will decide today on whether to stop a Nov.3 city initiative petition vote on a higher minimum wage. The deadline for an order to election officials is the end of the day, and city officials argue ...

City fights state bill that would stop higher city minimum wages

File photo. A city council committee on Tuesday advanced a resolution opposing a state bill that would clearly make a higher city minimum wage illegal. Officials in Kansas City, St. Louis and several other cities oppose the bill that they say ...

Mayors with uncertain city minimum wage increases support statewide effort

Adding to evolving complexities over higher city minimum wage laws, the mayors of Kansas City and St. Louis on Friday supported action at the state level. Mayor Sly James and St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay issued a joint media release. Both cities ...

Minimum wage vote could cost $500,000 – and be meaningless

The city council on Thursday approved a Nov. 3 election for a minimum wage increase to $15 an hour, although city attorney Bill Geary called the situation the most confusing procedural matter he’s seen in a long time. In a complex mess, ...