‘We are human beings’: UMKC workers take their fight for higher pay public

Supporters hold signs at a press conference and rally on UMKC’s campus calling for higher wages for university workers. (Thomas White/The Beacon) Belkis Cabrera has worked as a custodian at the University of Missouri-Kansas City for 16 years. Each time she and her co-workers earn a merit raise, she said, increasing healthcare costs and inflation swallow it. “We are not...