The Labor Tribune

By DAVID A. COOK President Last week, attorneys representing the National Labor Relations Board and attorneys representing Starbucks — the coffee giant currently embroiled in the...

By ELIZABETH DONALD Illinois Correspondent O’Fallon, IL – For the Cumberland-Tracy family, ironworking is a family affair – and so is their union. Three generations of Cumberlands...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief St. Louis – Nurses at SSM St. Louis University Hospital (SLUH) are applying a pressure campaign as contract negotiations drag on, with...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief Demand job security, better safety, steps to address teacher turnover St. Louis – After more than a year of negotiations, teachers and support...

By DAVID MCCALL President United Steelworkers Tom Bixler and several hundred of his co-workers produced top-quality glassware at the Libbey Glass plant in Toledo, Ohio, over the...

Union will help Troy community grow and prosper By DARIN GILLEY UAW Local 2250  It is a bold statement but one that can be proven with a...

Cadet, MO – Members of the Laborers Local 110 Volunteer Organizing Committee and other volunteers spent two days building and installing two playground sets...

The National Association of Letter Carriers’ (NALC) “Stamp Out Hunger” nationwide food drive is scheduled for May 11 this year, and letter carriers are...

FIFTEEN PRE-APPRENTICES recently graduated from the St. Louis Building Union Diversity (BUD) program, opening doors to good-paying union construction careers in the St. Louis...

Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE) clerical support and building service workers, represented by AFSCME Local 2887 and AFSCME Local 2232, overwhelmingly ratified...

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APRIL 29 1899 – An estimated 1,000 silver miners, angry over low wages, the firing of union members and the planting of spies in their...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief Earth City, MO – Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562 feted one of its own April 4, recently retired United Association of Plumbers,...

By ELIZABETH DONALD Illinois Correspondent Fairview Heights, IL – Grant-Illini teachers are offering to extend their contract in order to help out the troubled school district’s financial...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief St. Louis – Staff at Jewish Family Services in St. Louis (JFS) are organizing with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local...

By ED FINKELSTEIN Publisher Emeritus The United Auto Workers (UAW) is striving to bring the benefits and protections of a union contract to the Toyota workers...

By DAN BROOK Common Dreams The GOP is fiscally irresponsible in all sorts of ways. Republicans are worse for the economy overall, worse for gross domestic product,...

By SHERI GASSAWAY Assistant Editor Florissant, MO – Cement Masons Local 527 first-year apprentices spent a couple weeks last month volunteering their services to give the...

By ED FINKELSTEIN Publisher Emeritus Richmond Heights, MO – Starbucks workers across nation that have won elections for union representation were recently surprised with a “Congratulations,...

Tickets are still available for the Missouri Alliance for Retired Americans 2024 Workers Memorial Day Interfaith Prayer Service and Brunch Sunday, April 28, at...