KU Professors Are Long Overdue for their First Contract and Can Labor and Management Really Cooperate?-An Interview with Bob Jacobi

KU Professors Are Long Overdue for their First Contract and Can Labor and Management Really Cooperate?-An Interview with Bob Jacobi

Author: KKFI 90.1 FM Kansas City Community Radio November 4, 2025 Duration: 59:53
Over a year and a half ago, faculty and academic staff at the University of Kansas overwhelmingly voted in favor of unionization as the United Academics of KU. So why don’t they have a union contract by now? We’ll find out this week on the Heartland Labor Forum. Then, with the inherent adversarial relationship between labor and management, can the two sides ever really cooperate? We'll ask Bob Jacobi, Executive Director of the Labor-Management Council of Greater Kansas City to make the case for it. Our feature is Safety First with Mary Erio.

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