The Labor Tribune

By TIM ROWDEN Editor Chesterfield – Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jason Kander recently toured the training facility of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) District Council 58, speaking of the need to fight...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor St. Louis Emerging Labor Leaders’ (StELL) third annual “Kick Start to School” Kickball Tournament Aug. 7 at Tilles Park raised $1,500 to purchase school supplies for the St. Louis Crisis Nursery. The Nursery...

Robert A. Steinke, who led the St. Louis Newspaper Guild for nearly 20 years, died Aug. 10, 2016. He was 89. Brother Steinke became executive secretary of the Newspaper Guild Local 47 (now the United...

By CARL GREEN Illinois Correspondent Granite City, IL – Three Metro-East state legislators are calling on the Illinois governor and legislative leaders to hold a special session to allow a vote on extending unemployment benefits to laid-off...

Jen Stuhlman serves as IAFF Local 2665 political director, rep for IAFF District 2 By SHERI GASSAWAY Correspondent Growing up in a strong union family, Jen Stulman took a special interest in the Labor community. As a...

  By SHERI GASSAWAY Correspondent St. Charles – Eight female carpenters recently spent their Saturday ensuring that at least one St. Louis-area family has a place to call home. The union carpenters – all from the Sisters in...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 96 members, veterans and their families recently held an informational picket outside the John Cochran Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital in St. Louis to protest a...

Nursing home workers at Estates of Spanish Lake in St. Louis voted recently to organize with SEIU Healthcare Missouri, joining already unionized workers at Estates of St. Louis, a facility owned by the same...

Doug Beck, a 30-year member of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 562 is the new Democratic candidate in the 92nd Missouri House District following the withdrawal of incumbent State Representative Genise Montecillo on Aug. 3. A...

By CARL GREEN Illinois Correspondent Pontoon Beach, IL – Mike Millsap, District 7 director for the United Steelworkers, was named Labor Leader of the Year by the metro-east steel plant retirees. At the awards luncheon, Millsap had...