Dear Candidate,

The Wichita Hutchinson Labor Federation is beginning our candidate endorsement process for the upcoming election. If you would like to be considered for an endorsement from our organization, the first step is filling out the survey you'll find linked at the bottom of this letter by June 17th, 2026. After reading about our organization and goals, if you don't believe your campaign and the Wichita Hutchinson Labor Federation will have overlapping values, feel free to ignore the survey, as we won't consider you for an endorsement unless you share these fundamental values and are willing to put these values to work in your leadership.   

The Wichita / Hutchinson Labor Federation of South Central Kansas (WHLF) is a non-profit labor membership organization devoted to supporting, advancing and advocating for the working people of the south central Kansas region. The WHLF brings together 30 local unions from every trade, occupation, public and private sector of the Kansas economy. We represent over 30,000 union members and their families, including teachers, aerospace professionals, operating engineers, construction workers, electricians, firefighters, state employees, janitors, train operators, and many more who are the face of today's workforce.

Our mission is to improve the lives of workers, their families, and our communities, and to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our region. To accomplish this mission the WHLF works to build worker power through political education and action, supporting economic development in South Central Kansas, being an active partner with business and government leaders, organizing workers who choose to be in a union, providing community service and job training, and conducting educational programs for working people.

Survey at https://www.whlaborfed.org/survey

Survey responses will be evaluated by our board of directors and you'll receive an invitation for an interview if our board wants to consider you for an endorsement and possible financial contribution. Interviews will be held via video conference this year, in light of the covid pandemic. 

Thanks,

Judy Pierce

President of WHLF

Wichita Hutchinson Labor Federation