
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A collapsing Assistant Referee at the Copa America game between Canada and Peru at Children’s Mercy Park exemplified the challenges that all heat-exposed workers are dealing with this week in the Kansas City metro. “Whether it’s hot, cold, snowing, raining, any conditions, we have to be in because this is how we make our living,” said Heavy Construction Laborers’ Local 663 President and Business Manager Jason Mendenhall. His fellow union members are helping pour concrete and extend the KC Streetcar for 3.5 miles from Union Station...