Union push targets Coffeyville Amazon center
Union organizers say Amazon's Coffeyville distribution hub undercuts local labor with $9 start wages and anti union activity by managers. Local officials note 500 workers and the plant as a key employer, while analysts say labor costs influence site choices despite regional wage differences.
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Coffeyville
Amazon.com
Kansas
Neck of
Amazon
Mike Blake
Cherryvale
Seattle
Montgomery County
Daniel Ries
C.E. Unterberg
Towbin
New York City
Elwood delays zoning permit for Seaboard Farm
Elwood council postpones zoning decision on Seaboard Farms 140 acre plan near Elwood Missouri across from St. Joseph. memo of law to approve Thursday. project valued at 140 million dollars with 2300 jobs and processing 4 million pigs annually amid local opposition and a Doniphan County lawsuit alleging lack of zoning code and secretive dealings.
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Elwood
Seaboard Farms
Missouri River
St. Joseph
Seaboard
Johnson County
Merriam
Great Bend
Rick Hoffman
Missouri
Hoffman
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Doniphan County
Kansas grant funds expansion of McPherson Valley Wetlands
Public private partnership to expand the McPherson Valley Wetlands Refuge by 600 to 800 acres. A $400,000 grant from Koch Pipeline Co and $800,000 from state and nonprofit groups will enable land purchase at a total project cost of about $3.5 million over several years. Keen habitat for migratory birds is cited as among North America’s crucial wetlands.
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McPherson Valley
Conway
McPherson
Kansas
Koch Pipeline Co
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
Kansas Department of
Koch
Alan Pollom
The
Nature Conservancy
Mercury Poisoning Incident At Local Middle School
An 11 year old boy was suspended after placing a vial of mercury in teacher Anita Scheve's water bottle at Hays middle school. Police did not arrest him, citing no threat to others, as investigators recovered the vial and the teacher underwent blood testing. The student began psychiatric treatment and faces a long suspension pending further discipline decisions by Principal Craig Pallister.
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HAYS
Tom Meiers
Anita Scheve
Scheve
Meiers
Craig Pallister
Pallister
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United Food and Commercial Workers
Prewitt Organizing Fund
Patty Smith
Smith
Leroy Alsup
Golden Books
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Marriott
Wichita
Webb RD
Kellogg
Iwa
Lia
Jhigken
Avon liv
Nicks
Annlee
Dhwans
S. 4Th
Richardson Zoo
Toland
E. Kansas Ave
Border Collie
Doc
Finneycohs
9Th
Isabel Mon
Cmcn
E. Laurel
Garden City
Dexter &Rockports
Angel
Aaraen City
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