Rockwood Labor backs Eureka FPD’s Prop. S to hire more fire fighter/paramedics
Eureka, MO – The Rockwood Labor Club is urging members to support the Eureka Fire Protection District’s Proposition S on the Nov. 7 ballot.
The proposed .25/$100 assessed value property tax increase would allow the...
Buying American says more than meets the eye
The Oct. 19, 2017 Labor Tribune featured a letter “Want to save American Union jobs? Buy American and union” by Jeff Smith of the IBEW.
Mr. Smith expressed one of his key points with this...
AFL-CIO elects top officers at 2017 Convention in St. Louis
Trumka, Shuler, Gebre unanimously re-elected
Delegates to the AFL-CIO 28th Constitutional Convention in St. Louis have elected Richard Trumka (UMWA) as president, Liz Shuler (IBEW) as secretary-treasurer and Tefere Gebre (UFCW) as executive vice president....
Missouri Labor Movement, working Missourians fighting to stop so-called ‘right-to-work’
The fight begins; 310,567 signatures place Citizens’ Veto on Nov. 2018 ballot
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Jefferson City – One ironic twist in the Missouri Legislature’s push to make Missouri a “right-to-work” state that the law’s...
RTW’s only goal: Cut union membership, weaken union bargaining power
By ED FINKELSTEIN
Publisher
(EDITOR’S NOTE: For the purposes of this story, data from West Virginia (2016) and Kentucky (2017) is not included because their RTW laws were too new to be statistically measured. Nor is...
U.S., Canadian, Mexican unions jointly fighting for pro-worker, not pro-corporate NAFTA
By MARK GRUENBERG
PAI Staff Writer
Washington (PAI) – U.S., Canadian and independent Mexican union leaders said they and their members will jointly fight for a strong, pro-worker, not pro-corporate, new North American Free Trade Agreement...
ONE MAN’S VIEW: Chaos as a strategy
‘Saturday Night Live,’ famous for its satirical fake news, revealed the true Donald Trump in the opening episode of its new season Sept. 30.
Alec Baldwin as Trump talks with press aide Sarah Huckabee Sanders...
Bricklayers Local 1 apprentices work to beautify Monastery of St. Clare
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Oakville, MO – Bricklayers Local 1 apprentices donated their labor recently to build brick flower boxes in a secluded courtyard for the sisters at the Monastery of St. Clare at 200 Marycrest...
Labor Tribune, Outdoor Guide win honors from two national groups
The St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune continues to rank among the best Labor publications in the nation after taking home three awards in the International Labor Communicators Association (ILCA) Labor Media Awards competition, and...
After pledging not to use one office to get to another, Missouri A.G. Hawley...
Tied to RTW proponent David Humphreys
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
To the surprise of absolutely no one, Josh Hawley, Missouri’s Republican attorney general and beneficiary of campaign donations from “right-to-work” proponent David Humphreys’ announced his candidacy recently...