Kirkwood, MO – Checking out the rides (from left) union retirees Ed Koeller (Iron Workers Local 396), Marv DeVault (Painters Local 46) and Bill Koeln (UAW Local 325) preview the new 2018 lineup of Harley Davidson motorcycles at Doc's Harley Davidson 930 S. Kirkwood Rd. in Kirkwood during a Nov. 3 private event for union members. Attendees received special...
Collinsville, IL – As the holiday season approaches, state Rep. Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville, is co-hosting a winter clothing drive to support the laid-off steelworkers during the cold weather.
“SOAR Chapter President Jeff Raines, Terry Briggs, and all of those involved in the Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees and the United Way continually impress me with their dedication to our local...
As the St. Louis Blues skate into their second half-century, the Electrical Connection is again a prominent sponsor and is helping improve the hockey game experience at Scottrade Center.
The 51st Blues season features a new high-tech 40-by-40-foot video cube scoreboard above the rink installed by members of the Electrical Connection, a partnership between the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers...
Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) Chapter 7-34-2 raised $1,700 at a barbecue last month for Community Care Center, a group that provides food, clothing and services to needy people in Granite City, Pontoon Beach, Venice and Mitchell. Presenting the funds at the chapter meeting Nov. 13 at Neighborhood Social Club in Pontoon Beach were SOAR officers (from left)...
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Mount Vernon, IL – An Illinois appellate court has ruled that Governor Bruce Rauner violated state labor law by not paying thousands of state workers raises they were owed over the past two years.
AFSCME Council 31 reports that Rauner’s Department of Central Management Services blocked scheduled step raises under the workers’ contracts beginning July 1, 2015, when...
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
A recent wave of anti-worker preemption laws have swept across the country in the last decade striking down local government efforts to improve the working conditions of their residents.
Since 2010, Republican-controlled state legislatures have used preemption laws to push labor standards down by superseding city or county laws, or preventing local governments from legislating in certain areas—including...
Part-time instructors have been negotiating a first contract with the college for nearly two years
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
While St. Louis Community College considers laying off full-time faculty and staff to address state budget cuts and declining enrollment, part-time adjunct instructors and students are continuing their call for STLCC’s Board of Trustees to negotiate a first contract with the part-time instructors...
Following the passage of Act 10, legislation championed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) that eliminated collective bargaining rights and slashed benefits for public-sector workers, Wisconsin’s public education system has seen significant harm, new research from the American Worker Project finds.
The research is particularly relevant because members of Congress as well as state elected officials in Illinois and Minnesota...
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is calling for prompt approval of AT&T’s proposed acquisition of TimeWarner.
The $85 billion merger looked to be on a fast track for approval until earlier this month when President Donald Trump’s new head of antitrust enforcement, Makan Delrahim, who had previously said he didn’t see a “major antitrust problem” with the deal, threw...
‘Outrageous;’ ‘disgraceful;’ ‘bizarre;’ ‘illegal’
By ED FINKELSTEIN
Publisher
At least 100 Missouri workers will lose three years of work because the State of Missouri will not allow three qualified St. Louis firms to bid on a $30 million Capitol renovation project.
That’s the estimate of contractor Dan Staat of Staat Tuckpointing, a union contractor who last year successfully completed work on another...