By SHERI GASSAWAY
Assistant Editor
St. Louis – Laborers Local 110’s Volunteer Organizing Committee (VOC) spent the day March 23 handing out sleeping bags and personal care items to clientele at MoNetwork here.
MoNetwork is a recovery community center rooted in harm reduction that fights for progressive change and equity with and for people who use drugs and those with substance use...
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Assistant Editor
Groundworkers represented by Transport Workers Union Local 555 at Southwest Airlines have approved a new contract agreement that includes average wage increases of more than 18 percent.
“This is a good day for our hardworking members at Southwest,” said Alex Garcia, TWU international executive vice president. “This contract between the TWU and Southwest provides best in-the-industry wages,...
Maryland Heights, MO – Tim Meadows, Teamsters Local 600 Secretary Treasurer, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Joint Council 13 political director, former Missouri state legislator and Labor union warrior (seventh from right), celebrated his retirement at Local 600’s union hall April 5 with fellow Local 660 members, retirees and friends. Congratulations on a well-earned retirement. – Ronald Gushleff photo
St. Louis – Eric Holland, president of the Holland Law Firm, has been named president of the Top 10 Railroad Accident Lawyers Association, a distinguished honor awarded by the National Trial Lawyers.
Holland Law Firm is known for its litigation expertise in class actions, mass torts, Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA) law, commercial litigation, and Jones Act cases.
Eric Holland’s nomination...
APRIL 22
2011 – Songwriter, musician and activist Hazel Dickens dies at age 75. Among her songs: “They’ll Never Keep Us Down” and “Working Girl Blues.” Cultural blogger John Pietaro wrote: “Dickens didn’t just sing the anthems of Labor, she lived them. Her place on many a picket line, staring down gunfire and goon squads, embedded her into the cause.”
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BEST WISHES to Teamsters Local 688 Circle of Honor driver Todd Baker (left) on his well-deserved retirement after 37 years of safe and excellent service with UPS. Baker is congratulated by his son and Teamsters 688 member Jon Baker (center), as well as Shop Steward Andrew Brower (right). – Teamsters Local 688 photo
AFT Local 420-represented teachers and staff calling on union members for their support
St. Louis – After more than a year of negotiations with no progress, teachers and support staff at KIPP St. Louis High School are going on strike Friday, April 19, to demand a first contract.
The teachers and support staff, represented by American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local...
By DAVID A. COOK
President
As I’m writing this, myself and the staff of Local 655 are working hard to finish preparations for our 2024 Shop Steward Seminar. Last year, our theme was one simple word: “engagement.”
We are carrying many of the lessons of that theme into this year as well, forging newer and stronger relationships with our stewards in...
“Ballot candy” removed from original Senate version added to House measure
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Assistant Editor
The Republican-controlled Missouri House of Representatives has approved a bill making it harder to amend the state constitution through the initiative petition process, ending majority rule in Missouri.
Currently, ballot referendums generated by citizen-led initiative petitions need only a simple majority to pass. HJR 86 would require...
By ELIZABETH DONALD
Illinois Correspondent
East Alton, IL – Union activists and friends of Labor were honored at the annual Labor Awards banquet hosted by the Greater Madison County Federation of Labor on March 28.
The program, now in its 35th year, honored dignitaries and leaders who have stood by unions and their concerns throughout the past year.
Federation President Dean Webb introduced...