The Labor Tribune

By CARL GREEN Illinois Correspondent Springfield, IL – More than half the employees working for the Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner’s office are paid by state agencies with funds intended for other priorities such as economic development, public...

By CARL GREEN Illinois Correspondent Edwardsville – A noted friend of Labor, Anthony Ryan Jumper, has been named Madison County’s newest associate judge by a vote of the Third Judicial Circuit’s elected circuit judges. He replaces...

By CARL GREEN Illinois Correspondent Mt. Olive, IL – United Mine Workers International President Cecil Roberts will lay a wreath on the grave of Mother Jones and speak at the Mother Jones Museum on Saturday, April 28,...

An organization that works to strengthen the St. Louis minority- and women-owned contracting community – Regional Union Construction Center (RUCC) – has named IBEW Local 1 Business Manager Frank Jacobs to its board of...

By MARK GRUENBERG PAI Staff Writer New York (PAI) – Fight For $15 And A Union, the Labor-backed drive to empower low-wage workers nationwide, rejected a deal between the Trump-named National Labor Relations Board and McDonald’s...

Chicago — After a nine-month negotiation process, the 11-member bargaining unit at People’s World has voted unanimously to ratify the first union contract in the publication’s 94-year history. The contract commenced on March 24...

Is a Blue Wave coming to Missouri? By TIM ROWDEN Editor At the close of candidate filing on March 27, the Missouri Democratic Party had candidates running in 17 State Senate districts. That’s a 112 percent increase...

Reservation deadline is April 16 The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) is holding a women’s leadership skills conference that begins April 30 in Silver Spring, MD, near Washington. The conference is open to all...

Chicago-hired carpetbaggers get $3 - $5 a signature; told to lie to public; provoke union member into a fight By ED FINKELSTEIN Publisher Petitioners hired from Chicago to get signatures on a deceptive “right-to-work” petition in...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor Jefferson City – Union members from throughout Missouri traveled to State Capitol March 28 to voice their opposition to the phony “right-to-work” –– which will appear on the August or November ballot...