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...