labor

The challenge for people of color and women is finding an accessible entry point to training for jobs including electricians, bricklayers, and pipe fitters.

Union members rejected a contract offer and walked off the job this week complaining about stagnant wages and sometimes being forced to work six- and seven-day weeks.

Small businesses are looking for quality workers, but one in five may be closing their doors for good.

Small businesses are looking for quality workers, but one in five may be closing their doors for good, and books that could inspire personal change in 2021.

Officials in Kansas and Missouri struggle to keep up with the unprecedented volume of claims, burdened by their own inadequate infrastructures.

Segment 1: Health care workers continue to work in unsafe environments.A lack of protective gear and the silent nature of COVID-19 are just two new…

Segment 1: Health care workers continue to work in unsafe environments.A lack of protective gear and the silent nature of COVID-19 are just two new…

Segment 1: Flooded fields and fallout from trade wars could mean another rocky year for farmers.Climate change, flooding, and bankruptcies are just a few…

Americans spend an average of 90,000 hours at work in a lifetime. So what we do at work isn't separate from life. It is life. At a recent event hosted by…

Over the last five years, almost 15,000 workers disappeared from the Kansas workforce.During the same timeframe, the state is growing economically, with a…

Segment 1: Why we don't fix things any more, and why that matters.There's a national movement encouraging people to learn how to fix things as an antidote…

Inasmuch as Detroit relied on automobiles, or Pittsburgh on steel, Kansas City once relied on a meatpacking industry that, in turn, depended on a…