The Labor Tribune

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...

150 Missouri workers to lose millions in payroll; only out-state bidders allowed for $30 million Capitol renovation By ED FINKELSTEIN Publisher In a bizarre twist, two of...

Props. P and C were intended to increase pay for first responders, but city is holding back By TIM ROWDEN Editor Crestwood, MO – Members of the...

Four simple requests will be key in repealing the destructive law By SHERI GASSAWAY Correspondent Festus, MO – We Are Missouri, the campaign to repeal so-called “right-to-work”...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor Volunteers with the Electrical Connection, a partnership between the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1 and the St. Louis Chapter...

St. Charles – IUPAT District Council 58 apprentices (from left to right) Travis Downey, Alex Phillips, Jordan Young, Chad Bax, Lance Thrasher, Cody Eisenbeis...

By STEPHEN WEBBER Chair, Missouri Democratic Party As a Marine infantryman fighting in Fallujah, danger came from every direction. As we patrolled through the city, each...

The Labor & Employment Relations Association (LERA) Gateway Chapter is hosting a lunch meeting and program on marijuana and the workplace on Wednesday, Dec....

By CARL GREEN Illinois Correspondent Chicago, IL – The Northwestern Illinois Building Trades (NWIBT) have endorsed JB Pritzker for Governor. NWIBT represents over 15,000 workers in...