‘This is what you built’: Kansas workers rally in solidarity at the Statehouse

‘This is what you built’: Kansas workers rally in solidarity at the Statehouse

Jake Lowen, executive secretary-treasurer of the Kansas State AFL-CIO, delivers a "solidarity day" speech on Jan. 14, 2026, at the Statehouse in Topeka. (Photo by Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)TOPEKA — Union leader Jake Lowen told the hundreds of workers who gathered Wednesday in the first floor rotunda of the Statehouse to look around and take in “the house that labor built.” He referenced the stonemasons who cut every piece of limestone in th…