Worker Groups Seek Common Ground on Proposed New Royals Ballpark
Terrence Wise stands in front of a wall of campaign posters at Missouri Workers Power’s Kansas City headquarters. (Thomas White/The Beacon)
Ralph Oropeza was telling a crowd at Union Station how he made it out of poverty.
Thirty-five years ago, as the son of an immigrant single mother, he got an opportunity for an apprenticeship with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Now he’s business manager of the Greater Kansas City Building and Construction Trades Council.
On July 27 he stood on stage at a public hearing at Union …
