Union support, family history influence Wesley Bell’s campaign for Congress
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor-in-Chief
St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell has a rich family history with unions and growing support from Labor as he campaigns to...
Union questions about job quality shoot down Midas request for tax...
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor-in-Chief
St. Louis – Midas Hospitality’s request for tax incentives for its planned development of the former Wells Fargo campus in St. Louis’...
Painters union, Herculaneum at odds over $1 million water tower project
Non-union, out-of-state contractor hired to paint, maintain two cisterns
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Assistant Editor
Herculaneum, MO – Painters District Council 58 is calling out the city of...
OPINION: Hey ALEC, be careful what you wish for
By BENJAMIN SACHS
Boston (PAI) – The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which unites business lobbyists and executives with state lawmakers and officials to craft...
OPINION: We are all people in the same fight
By DAVID COOK
President
UFCW Local 655
I don’t normally directly address comments made by a candidate or politician unless they are in specific reference to the...
Laborers denounce Mo. Sens. Hawley, Schmitt for putting political games before...
Wentzville, MO – The Missouri-Kansas Laborers’ District Council is deeply disappointed by the decisions of Senators Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt to refuse to participate...
Laborers Local 660 building new, larger union hall in Wentzville
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Assistant Editor
Wentzville, MO – Laborers Local 660 will soon be moving into a brand new union hall here at 1320 S. Callahan...
Operating Engineers Local 513 bannering new Mehlville Club Car Wash
Mehlville – Operating Engineers Local 513 is bannering the new Club Car Wash at 2675 Telegraph Road because it is using QuesTec Mechanical, a...
Union teachers at Grant District 110 call for new district leadership,...
By ELIZABETH DONALD
Illinois Correspondent
Fairview Heights, IL – Grant-Illini Federation of Teachers Local 6600, the union representing teachers at Grant District 110, are calling out...
Hangovers worse? Maybe Covid is the cause
Can’t handle your booze like you used to? Covid-19 might be to blame.
An article recently published by researchers at Stanford University’s Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome...
April is Stress Awareness Month
There is a month for seemingly everything — stroke awareness, high blood pressure awareness, skin cancer awareness.
April is Stress Awareness Month. And for good...
Join Team Aetna for NAMIWalks St. Louis on May 11
May is Mental Health Awareness Month.
Aetna, a proud supporter of National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) St. Louis, is inviting union members and the...
The Rize Event Center joins UNITE HERE Local 74
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Assistant Editor
The Rize Event Center, a new a full-service catering and restaurant facility, has joined UNITE HERE Local 74.
The center is at...
Fitters beat Electricians in close 3rd Annual ‘Braggin’ Rights’ hockey game
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Assistant Editor
Hazelwood, MO – Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562 narrowly defeated IBEW Local 1, scoring the winning trophy in the 3rd Annual...
Cleveland Cliffs again offers to buy U.S. Steel
By ELIZABETH DONALD
Illinois Correspondent
An American steel company is willing to bid for U.S. Steel if the controversial deal with Nippon Steel falls apart...
Operating Engineers 513’s Nathan Weber joins South County Labor Club’s Executive...
Fenton, MO – Nathan Weber, an Operating Engineers Local 513 business representative, has joined the South County Labor Legislative Club as an executive board...
Steelworkers Local 1899, SOAR, WOS raise $9.5K for member’s grandson injured...
Granite City, IL – When Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) Chapter 7-34-2’s Dennis Warren’s grandson suffered a workplace injury last year resulting in...
Operating Engineers 513 journeywoman wins national Construction Championship award
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Assistant Editor
Brittoni Calhoun, an Operating Engineers Local 513 journeywoman, has been honored with a national Construction Championship award for mentoring others.
The awards,...
CLUW donates $1.2K, personal items to Saint Martha’s to help women...
GIVING BACK – The St. Louis Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) has donated $1,200 and a slew of personal items...
Battlehawks offering discount tickets, donating $5 to the $5 Fight Fund...
Football is back in St. Louis, and with it a unique opportunity to help union families in need via the $5 for the Fight...