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Laborers 110 members flocked to union’s drive-through Christmas party
Each year, Laborers Local 110 hosts a very well attended Christmas party for its members, complete with dinner, drinks and gifts.
“The coronavirus pandemic put...
Yellow Pages to lay off 545 workers across the U.S., ship...
92 CWA Local 6300 members in St. Louis to lose their jobs
Old fashioned greed will force 545 American workers, most of them CWA union...
WORD CUP 2016
AFGE, NNU applaud reintroduction of the VA Employee Fairness Act
Bill would grant collective bargaining rights to all VA healthcare workers
Washington – The American Federation...
U.S. Steel holding job fair on Nov. 3
Granite City – U.S. Steel-Granite City Works is hosting a hiring fair from 7 a.m....
OPINION: Sacrificing working people for political gain
By LIZ WATSON
The United States is currently seeing the most coronavirus infections since the pandemic...
WRC Rally Cup
OPINION: Our members and our nation deserve much better
By KEN RIGMAIDEN
General President
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT)
The first presidential debate...
IN MEMORIAM: Steven Douglas Wesselschmidt, a member of Laborers Local 110, died on July 11, 2021
Brother Wesselschmidt was the beloved son of Lenore Krull and Kevin Wesselschmidt, loving brother of...
Can you get COVID-19 again?
If you’ve already had the coronavirus, can you get it again?
Last week, the total number...
SPORT NEWS
CYCLING TOUR
St. Louis Emerging Labor Leaders Kick Start to School Tournament to benefit St. Louis...
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Bridgeton, MO – St. Louis Emerging Labor Leaders’ (StELL) annual Kick Start to School charity kickball tournament to benefit the St. Louis...
Bill introduced in U.S. Senate to kill RTW in every state
“Right-to-work” could become an example of bad legislation from another age if a new bill makes it way to law.
The odds are slim but...
Tight-fit masks or double masking with cloth and surgical masks increases protection, CDC says
Wearing a mask — any mask — reduces the risk of infection with the coronavirus, but wearing a more tightly fitted surgical mask, or...
What is right-to-work?
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This week in labor history: June 10 –16
JUNE 10
1937 – The mayor of Monroe, Mich. organizes a vigilante mob of 1,400 armed with baseball bats and teargas to break the organizing...
TENNIS
Major contracts are complete: so what’s next?
By DAVID A. COOK
President
Last week, Dierbergs partners ratified a new three-year union contract. This contract, nearly identical to the one ratified last month by...
Four personal traits that make it hard to accept and respond...
Do you find it especially difficult to hear negative comments about yourself, your actions or your performance, even from people who you know deep...
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CBTU sponsors Juneteenth celebration, cleanup
Many unions join effort
By KEVIN MADDEN
Correspondent
More than 40 volunteers collected enough trash to fill two 20-foot-long dumpsters Saturday, June 18 during the Third Annual Juneteenth Labor for Black Lives Day of Action in St....
First woman, first African-American elected to top AFL-CIO leadership
The national AFL-CIO wrote a new chapter in its storied history when delegates elected the first woman and first African-American into its top leadership.
At the 29th AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention meeting June 12-15, delegates elected...
City workers win raises, new benefits
Pay raises, bonuses, family or medical leave included
By ED FINKELSTEIN
Publisher
Some 5,000 St. Louis city employees will now enjoy paid family and medical leave in addition to a substantial pay increase thanks to support and...
Juneteenth origins date to Civil War
Celebration traced to freeing of slaves in Texas in 1865
By TOM EMERY
Correspondent
Juneteenth is the newest federal holiday in the calendar. Its origins, however, date to the final weeks of the Civil War.
The commemoration arose...
St. Charles baristas seek to form a union
By ROBERT KELLY
Correspondent
St Charles, MO.– Hourly workers at the Starbucks at Fifth Street and Boonslick Road in St. Charles last week joined a growing movement to form unions at Starbucks stores nationwide.
They also joined...
New painting company organized
NEW PAINTING CONTRACTOR – Painters and Allied Trades District 58 Assistant Business Manager Joe Mueller (right) welcomes Brittany and Bobby Haynes, owners of Haynes Pro Painting, into the union fold as the most recent...
Hoffman law to streamline transportation improvement
A bill sponsored by State Rep. Jay Hoffman (D-Swansea), and aimed at improving efficiency and limiting red tape in grant programs administered by the Illinois Department of Transportation has been signed into law by...
OPINION: Supreme Court damages U.S. public schools with vouchers decision
By MARK GRUENBERG
PAI Staff Writer
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority was dead wrong when it decided to further extend public funds – vouchers – to religious schools, say the leaders of the nation’s two big...
OPINION: Could technology firms settle up with Labor?
By WILLIAM ENYART
Are we entering a new phase of the Labor union movement?
We’ve seen the Labor Movement grow, change, shrink and begin to grow again over the last century and a half. We’ve seen...
YOUR LETTERS: Working people want democracy protected
For working people, our vote is sacred. Whether we’re voting to elect candidates to office or to have a voice in our workplace, democracy is at the heart of our values.
On Jan. 6, the...