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AT&T workers approve four-year agreement that contains wage increases

10:17 PM CST

After months of bargaining that included informational pickets, about 2,400 of the area’s hourly AT&T Inc. employees are under new contracts. Members of Communications Workers of America approved a four-year agreement last week that covered 27,000 workers in five states, including Missouri and Kansas. About 1,650 of the AT&T Southwest employees are in the Kansas City area.

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‘1937: One Helluva Year’ is ‘valentine to organized labor’

08:42 PM CST

The often-bloody battles that established the country’s union movement are usually associated with places such as New York and Michigan. But Bill Clause also wants you to think of Kansas City when considering the rise of organized labor during the Great Depression.

Nurses at Lee’s Summit Medical Center vote to remove union as bargaining agent

09:55 PM CST

Nurses at Lee’s Summit Medical Center voted to remove their union as bargaining agent, but the results will be contested. In an election held over two days last week, 68 nurses voted to remove a unit of the California Nurses Association while 59 voted to retain it, said Dan Hubbel, regional director of the National Labor Relations Board.

Two HCA Midwest hospitals will hold nurse bargaining elections

10:38 PM CDT

In the next month, the two remaining HCA Midwest hospitals with union-represented nurses will hold elections intended to remove the bargaining unit. Lee’s Summit Medical Center, which has about 150 nurses, will hold its decertification election Thursday and Friday. The 272 nurses at Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park are scheduled to vote Nov. 19 and 20. Both elections will be conducted by the National Labor Relations Board.