Founded in 1997 as the statewide Coalition for Workers’ Rights, Social Justice, and Economic Fairness, Kansas Action Network unites trade unionist with farmers, civil rights and independent living advocates; and organizers from the peace, justice and faith communities.
KAN’s mission is to educate, organize and mobilize on issues that will improve the working and living conditions for all men, women and children in Kansas.
In all, our constituent organizations number over 250,000 Kansans – in all, about 10% of the total Kansas population:
Flint Hills Living Wage Coalition
GI Forum
Grow Kansas
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 70 and Locals 2799, 733, 774, 834
Kansas AFL-CIO
Kansas Ecumenical Ministries
Kansas Farmers Union
Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice
Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice
Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas
Plumbers and Pipe fitters Local 441
Salina Central Labor Union
Sisters of St. Joseph of Concordia
Southeast Kansas Independent Living Resource Center
Statewide Independent Living Council of Kansas
Topeka Center for Peace and Justice
Topeka Independent Living Resource Center
Topeka Federation of Labor
Topeka LULAC
Tri-County Labor Council of Eastern Kansas
United Methodist Church East Kansas Conference
United Steelworkers of America Local 3092
Wichita Hutchinson Labor Federation
Plus 300 individual members
