Featured Speaker: Kim Bobo, Building Religion & Labor Partnerships
Kim Bobo, the founder and executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice, will share why religion and labor partnerships are critical for workers, how such partnerships have won concrete improvements for communities around the nation, and how union leaders can help deepen and expand the partnerships.

Conference Workshops to include: Wage Theft, Budgeting, Emergency Services and much more
Conference Registration: $90.00 (covers the cost of lunch and materials)

Room Rate: $109.00 + tax (hot breakfast buffet included for one guest per room)
Hotel Reservations deadline is April 27th, 2012.

For more information, contact:
Mario Cervantes
AFL-CIO Community Service Liaison
United Way of the Plains
316/267-1321 Ext 4209

To help sponsor the conference, have an advertisement placed in our conference program:
Platinum Sponsors – $500 (Full Page Ad)
Gold Sponsors – $250 (Half Page Ad)
Silver Sponsors – $125 (Quarter Page Ad)

At the end of last week Governor Brownback introduced a tax plan that continues to further his agenda and abandon working families and the middle class.

The legislative session is only just getting underway but the Tax debate is dominating the news. The biggest question about the Brownback Tax Cuts for the Wealthy is whether it will destroy the middle class or only make it impossible for working Kansans to ever reach the middle class.

What is clear is that unless you own your own business, then your taxes are likely going UP under the Brownback Tax Cut for Corporations.

Working Kansans will find their taxes increasing despite Gov. Brownback’s focus on lowering their income tax bracket because he is also eliminating exemptions and deductions that were designed to make the Kansas tax system is fair, and to make sure that every Kansan pays his or her fair share.

During his 2010 campaign for Governor, Brownback himself acknowledged that removing tax exemptions was the same as raising taxes and although he said he was opposed to doing that, in order to make the math work on tax breaks for corporations he is going back on his word.

As the debate unfolds in the Legislature, the Working Kansas Alliance will be watching and letting you know who is backing the Governor’s plan to shift the tax burden from corportations onto the shoulders of working Kansans. Stay tuned to our blog for more.