Jefferson City – Have you made your plans to attend the Labor Rally here on March 27? If not, it’s time to start planning!
While the rally is a building trades rally to protest to targeting Republicans are doing of critical building trades issues such as prevailing wage and Project Labor Agreements, every union in Missouri is urged to send...
Alton - With the need for financial help for unemployed union families still growing, the Simmons Law Firm has stepped up to offer a major challenge to the labor movement: they are offering a $25,000 matching donation for the $5 for the Fight Fund if donations from working families of the St. Louis/Southern Illinois metro area can match that...
Bridgeton – Kurt has known good times and bad.
When times were good, Kurt, 43, would alternate between general labor and environmental testing as a member of Laborers Local 42. When the work dried up as a general laborer, he could fall back on environmental testing. But starting in late 2008, the gaps between work started getting longer. Then, in...
Thanks to Shop ‘N Save, Sheet Metal Workers 36 and Postal Workers Branch 343 from grateful soldiers fighting for us.
Afghanistan -Forward Operating Base- “Everyone was walking by in disbelief!”
With that comment, the efforts of dozens of volunteers at Christmas from Sheet Metal Workers Local 36, Letter Carriers Branch 343 and Shop ‘N Save were recognized from a Forward Operating...
St. Louis- IBEW Local 1 and the St. Louis National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) have launched the first electrical car training program in Missouri, one of the few in America.
The only program of its kind locally, it’s designed to train Local 1 members in the skills needed to install charging stations for the growing number of electric vehicles on...
The first major donations - $5,500 – for the $5 for the Fight Fund to help unemployed working families have launched the 2012 campaign. They came from Aetna Life Insurance Company and Lancia Consulting Group.
In making the presentations last week at the St. Louis Labor Council Executive Board meeting, Aetna Sales Executive Paul Lancia presented an Aetna check for...
To protest unprecedented attack on workers; take a bus, drive your car, walk if you have to, but BE THERE.
Jefferson City – With workers and unions, especially the building trades, under attack in Jefferson City like never before, the Missouri building trades are calling on ALL building trades members in Missouri to join together in a Labor Solidarity Rally...
Utility Workers 335 fight against sale shed light on onerous bid demands by anti-union company
Arnold, MO – The City of Arnold last week rejected an effort by the anti-union Missouri American Water Company to buy the city’s sewer system in part because “It was clear that not enough assurances could be provided (by the company) to ensure the protection...
With this issue (Feb. 16-22), we launch the 2012 “$5 for the Fight” campaign to support the many thousands of union families still out of work and needing financial help.
As of last Monday, there was $38,474.38 in the campaign fund to respond to the hundreds of requests still waiting for some form of help for medicines, mortgage aid, rent...
Picking up on a successful homebuilding stimulus program started by McBride & Son Homes last year, a second stimulus program was launched this month with the help of nine construction unions. They are putting up $600,000 to help start a new program to kick-start local home construction. The program is the first-of-its-kind-in-America.This second “Neighborhoods Built By Your Neighbors” program...