The Labor Tribune

Elise Bryant, a member of Communication Workers of America, is the new national president of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). Bryant, the coalition’s...

Hazelwood – About 60 labor union women celebrated the fellowship of sisterhood with food, fun and live music at the St. Louis Chapter of...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor Organizers with the national fast food workers’ movement have joined the United Media Guild (UMG) through a card check involving movement organizers...

Share the hunt with your union brothers and sisters! Send us your photo, name and local and a description of your deer, fish, etc....

Here is our December edition of “Superstars in the Sisterhood,” a tribute to the outstanding, hard-working group of ladies who are finding success in...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Missouri State Representative Shamed Dogan (R-Ballwin) recently wrote a distorted, pro- “right-to-work” opinion piece for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch critical of unions’...

With the recent passage of the Senate version of the GOP tax plan, this seems like a good time for a quick history lesson...

By REP. JOSHUA PETERS (D-St. Louis) Rep. Shamed Dogan (R-Ballwin) recently wrote, “Unions ignore long history of excluding minorities from jobs” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov. 13)....

By LEW MOYE “We must guard against being fooled by false slogans such as ‘right to work.’ ” – Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In his commentary...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor Jefferson City – Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has certified the petitions placing repeal of the so-called “right-to-work” before voters with...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor Centreville, IL – Johnny Lee Lovett, Sr., a father and member of Iron Workers Local 392, was nearly home on Friday, Nov....

By CARL GREEN Illinois Correspondent Springfield, IL – Governor Bruce Rauner’s handpicked members of the State Board of Elections have voted to keep Illinois in the...

By ED FINKELSTEIN Publisher Now entering its fourth year, the St. Louis Workers’ Education Society (WES), a non-profit, grassroots community-labor worker-education organization, is racking up a...

By CARL GREEN Illinois Correspondent IBEW 309 held its annual retirees’ luncheon Nov. 4 at Sunset Hills Country Club in Edwardsville, honoring veteran members with 50,...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor Clayton, MO – Graduate student-workers and Missouri citizens rallied outside Senator Roy Blunt’s office recently to protest the GOP tax plan that...

Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO – A well-known bit of American yesteryear is vanishing this fall as retired IBEW Local 1 electrician, 88-year-old Al Roth, harvests...

By CARL GREEN Illinois Correspondent Granite City – Holiday helping is gearing up in Madison County, where hundreds of steel workers remain laid off and...

By CARL GREEN Illinois Correspondent This Christmas, how about getting someone a kids’ book that will teach them of the good that unions do in the...

Electrical-related fires increase in winter months; more than 45,000 home electrical fires reported annually As the winter months approach, the Electrical Connection, a partnership...

Unprecedented need has depleted funds. Your help is needed NOW By ED FINKELSTEIN Publisher The St. Louis Labor Council’s union member-support $5 for the Fight Fund is...