Legislative Session

2026 Missouri Legislative Session:

The Missouri and Kansas Laborers District Council is a subsidiary of the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA). As Missouri’s infrastructure union, we represent 14,000 members who work as construction craft laborers and hundreds of public employees across the state.

Why Politics Matter:

Everything from the conditions on the jobs, the amount of work we have, to the healthcare we provide our members is impacted by legislation every year. As your union, we fight for your rights and dignity on the job in Jefferson City.

LIUNA 2026 Legislative Priorities:

Supporting Interest Arbitration

Since the Ledbetter Missouri Supreme Court ruling, public employers have increasingly used delay tactics to stall negotiations and “chill” the collective bargaining process, leaving workers without a fair path to a contract. Because public employees often lack the right to strike, these deliberate delays strip workers of their power and undermine the entire purpose of collective bargaining.

To fix this broken system, LIUNA proposes legislation that:

• legally defines “Good Faith” bargaining
• Sets strict deadlines for employers to begin negotiations
• Empowers the Board of Mediation to declare an impasse and mandate interest arbitration.

Opposing Prescription Benefit Manager (PBM) Reform

Our construction Laborers use and exhaust their bodies every day. It’s the fundamental reason that we strive to have the best insurance on the market. As a 100% self-funded and self-operated health and welfare fund, we depend on market stablitity and cost saving on prescription drugs to ensure we continue providing excellent care.

PBM legislation filed this year and years past risks increasing our pharmaceutical costs by millions of dollars each year. For our members, increasing costs on the fund could result in losing coverage or increasing costs.

Opposing Unemployment Cuts

Legislation like HB 1849 risks reducing MIssouri’s unemployment duration from twenty weeks to eight weeks. Construction is a seasonal industry. When it gets too cold or too wet, Laborers can’t pour concrete or lay asphalt. Cutting unemployment weakens a safety net that ensures Missourians can get by during tough times.

Construction Industry Laborers' Welfare/Pension Fund

Laborers' Benefit Office
12200 North Ambassador Drive Suite 400
Kansas City, MO 64163-1258
Toll Free: 833-479-9429
Phone: 816-777-2669
cilfunds.com

Laborers’ Fringe Benefit Funds

Kansas Building Trades Open End Health & Welfare Fund

P.O. Box 5168
Topeka, KS 66605
Toll Free: 800-432-3595
Phone: 785-267-0140