Despite years of strong profits and the highest level of service by employees, Kansas Gas Service continues to ask workers in Kansas and Oklahoma to sacrifice pay, health care coverage and pension benefits. 

Contract negotiations have broken off between the company, whose parent’s earnings total nearly $1.5 billion over the last four years, and the United Steelworkers, which represents 380 Kansas Gas Service employees in the two states. No new talks have been scheduled.

Workers at USW Local 12561 in Overland Park and Topeka, Kansas; Local 13417 in Wichita and Hutchinson, Kansas, and Local 14228 in Pittsburg Kansas and Bartlesville, Oklahoma have extended the current collective bargaining agreement twice since the original expiration of June 30th and are now working day to day ... more