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Stand Up KC

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We are fast food and retail workers from across Kansas City coming together to demand good wages and a voice for low-wage workers. #StandUpKC #FightFor15

 Kansas City, MO
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Joined July 2013
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BREAKING🚨🗞️: Low-wage #MOworkers organizing have put earned paid sick days and a $15 minimum wage increase on the 11/5 ballot! @moworkerscenter This fall, we’re uniting with @mohealthyfam and voting #YesOnPropA to #RaiseTheWage and win #PaidSickDays. Together we can win!
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🎥 KANSAS CITY! This May Day, we’re hosting a citywide screening of Norma Rae — an inspirational story of one woman and her coworkers’ struggle to win a union at the town textile mill.
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Our statement on the @Royals stadium announcement. #MOworkers
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There’s more than one way to withhold your labor on May 1! Learn how you can join the nationwide day of action this May Day. Sign up for the No Work virtual training call at bit.ly/noMOwork
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The UAW and labor supporters from across the community came out to Local 31 in Kansas City on Tuesday to rally with Emotiv workers organizing to form their union. While workers at the parts supplier have bravely exercised their protected concerted rights, the company is rolling out illegal union-busting intimidation tactics in an attempt to defeat the organizing drive. Yesterday, the Kansas City community sent a message to Emotiv: We're standing with these workers through thick and thin until they win! A big thank you to everyone who stood with these brave Emotiv workers, including UAW Local 249, Local 710, Local 2250 (Wentzville, MO) SEIU, AFGE, Stand Up KC, and UAW Region 4 Director Brandon Campbell ✊✊✊
The UAW and the labor community joined together on March 17, 2026, at Local 31 in Kansas City, KS, to stand with Emotiv workers who are organizing to form their union.

ALT The UAW and the labor community joined together on March 17, 2026, at Local 31 in Kansas City, KS, to stand with Emotiv workers who are organizing to form their union.

AFGE members attended a March 17, 2026, rally in Kansas City, KS, to support workers at Emotiv who are organizing to form their union.

ALT AFGE members attended a March 17, 2026, rally in Kansas City, KS, to support workers at Emotiv who are organizing to form their union.

UAW members and labor supporters rally outside of Emotiv in Kansas City, KS, on March 17, 2026, to show support for workers at the parts supplier who are organizing to form their union.

ALT UAW members and labor supporters rally outside of Emotiv in Kansas City, KS, on March 17, 2026, to show support for workers at the parts supplier who are organizing to form their union.

Two Emotiv workers who were recently terminated by the company attend the rally in Kansas City, KS, on March 17, 2026, to support their coworkers organizing drive.

ALT Two Emotiv workers who were recently terminated by the company attend the rally in Kansas City, KS, on March 17, 2026, to support their coworkers organizing drive.

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Over the past two weeks, several hundred #MOworkers joined their neighbors across the state — from Kansas City to St. Louis, and plenty of cities in between — to lay out our plan for a state budget that serves working people and our families, not a greedy elite minority!
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“Being able to see how far we’ve come since this organization has started and what we’ve accomplished — it just makes me want to fight even harder.”
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Over the past two weeks, service industry workers in St. Louis and Kansas City have come together for our Wages & Tipping Workshops, co-hosted with attorneys from @jobsandfreedom_!
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Come join the opening reception of Charlotte Street Foundation's new exhibition "Stand Up, Fight Back: Designing an Anti-Racist Movement for Worker Power" tomorrow at 3pm!
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TOMORROW: Join the opening reception of the new Charlotte Street Foundation exhibition documenting 15 years of Stand Up KC design! Come see how our bold visuals have shaped the multiracial worker-led fight for higher pay and unions across Kansas City for over a decade:
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“April 15, 2015 — I went and joined @StandUpKC, and the fight for $15 and a union. And to this day, I’m still fighting.” 😤
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#MOworkers and community members gathered in Kansas City over the weekend for a memorial and teach-in hosted by @IREHR to reflect on the brilliant legacy of Leonard Zeskind. Leonard was a dear friend, ally, and mentor to MWC who passed away in April.
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2pm this Saturday at Mill Creek Park! RSVP here: bit.ly/46JDanG
NO KINGS 2.0 · Indivisible Kansas City

NO KINGS 2.0 · Indivisible Kansas City

SAVE THE DATE- NO KINGS RALLY 2.O IS COMING OCT. 18TH MARK YOUR CALENDARS DUE TO A MARATHON TAKING PLACE THE SAME DAY ON THE PLAZA WE HAVE MOVED THE STARTING TIME TO 2 PM THE RALLY WILL BEGIN AT 2 PM...

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Missouri Workers Center (Bsky: @moworkers.org) (@moworkerscenter) profile pictureMissouri Workers Center (Bsky: @moworkers.org)@moworkerscenter15 Oct 2025
❌👑 MO lawmakers and President Trump are acting like dictators: abducting our neighbors, occupying our cities, and stealing away our political representation. #NoKings
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❌👑 MO lawmakers and President Trump are acting like dictators: abducting our neighbors, occupying our cities, and stealing away our political representation. #NoKings
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“We all deserve representation that’s going to highlight our needs. We ALL need good wages, we ALL need healthcare, we ALL value women’s rights. We ALL need a good union!” 🔥
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📰@wendys worker, @standup_kc, and MWC leader Fran Marion in @inequalityorg: “Working people like me don’t back down when our lives are on the line.”
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“It makes me ANGRY!” @standup_kc leader and @wendys worker Fran Marion is FED UP with MO lawmakers who are trying to break apart her home district in Kansas City — all to attack worker power and enrich a wealthy few!
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NEWS: MWC leader Terrence Wise is the lead plaintiff in a new lawsuit @aclu_mo filed against Missouri over state lawmakers’ unconstitutional redistricting scheme! #MOworkers are fighting back — from the statehouse to the courthouse!
Wise v. Missouri “Kansas City has been home for me my entire adult life. Voting is an important tool in our toolbox, so that we have the freedom to make our voices heard through a member of Congress who understands Kansas City’s history of racial and economic segregation along the Troost divide, and represents our needs. If our communities are needlessly split by these new lines, we would no longer see our strong values reflected in the priorities of our congressional representatives,” said plaintiff and Missouri Workers Center leader Terrence Wise.

ALT Wise v. Missouri “Kansas City has been home for me my entire adult life. Voting is an important tool in our toolbox, so that we have the freedom to make our voices heard through a member of Congress who understands Kansas City’s history of racial and economic segregation along the Troost divide, and represents our needs. If our communities are needlessly split by these new lines, we would no longer see our strong values reflected in the priorities of our congressional representatives,” said plaintiff and Missouri Workers Center leader Terrence Wise.

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🏛️Whose house? OUR HOUSE!  Several THOUSAND #MOworkers and allies flooded the state Capitol on Wednesday and marched outside the House and Senate chambers to demand an end to Trump’s authoritarian power grab!
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Thousands flood Missouri Capitol to protest gerrymandering, direct democracy overhaul kansascity.com/news/politics…
Thousands flood Missouri Capitol to protest gerrymandering, direct democracy overhaul

Thousands flood Missouri Capitol to protest gerrymandering, direct democracy overhaul

Swarms of people, including union workers, activists and residents, held one of the largest rallies inside the Missouri Capitol in recent years.

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Terrence Wise: “We’re the Show-Me State, which means we have a mandate to SHOW our elected leaders what democracy looks like.” 🎤 📰 More from Terrence and @standup_kc leader Fran Marion via @kcur @savannahhawley
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🗣️#MOworkers across races, places, and genders REFUSE to be divided! It’s no coincidence President Trump and MO lawmakers are targeting KC’s 5th congressional district — building on an ugly legacy of racial and economic segregation along the Troost divide.
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*Tomorrow* we’re bringing our fight against their authoritarian power grab to the Capitol! Join us: bit.ly/fightbackMO
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