The Labor Tribune

By CARL GREEN Correspondent Madison, IL – Jason Novak of Marion, IL, and IBEW Local 702, won the inaugural Buckingham Climbin' For Linemen competition June 25 at Gateway Motorsports Park. Novak, an Ameren Illinois employee, used his skills...

By CARL GREEN Correspondent  Clayton, MO – The sight of people protesting in front of the Peabody headquarters in downtown St. Louis has become familiar, especially since the company filed for bankruptcy. The rallies have been about...

By ED FINKELSTEIN Publisher McBride & Son Homes, America’s largest union homebuilder, is about to launch a unique new home community that will combine single-family homes, neo-traditional row homes and luxury apartments. The project will be in...

By SHERI GASSAWAY Correspondent Rob Russell has been promoted to director of the University of Missouri Extension’s (MU) Labor Education Program in Columbia, MO. Russell joined the University of Missouri in 2011 and most recently served dual...

Laborers’ Local 110 is scheduled to present a $2,500 check to the Arnold Food Pantry during the Taste of Arnold on Thursday, July 28. The celebration will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. at...

Following are the COPE endorsements for the Aug. 2 primary election recommended by area labor clubs and approved by the Greater St. Louis Labor Council. Incumbents are marked with an asterisk (*). MINERAL AREA State Representative...

By ED FINKELSTEIN Publisher Preserve Middle Class America has launched a $1 million fundraising effort for a media campaign to counteract the hateful anti-union and anti-working family political ads currently airing on Missouri radio and television stations. Missouri...

Private effort to mediate before boycott rebuffed by Schnuck By ED FINKELSTEIN Publisher In a change of tactics, Teamsters Local 688, aided by union members and retirees from other locals, recently mass picketed every entrance at a single...

Right-wing trying to punish worker-friendly Republicans By TIM ROWDEN Editor Organized Labor is putting forth a coordinated effort to elect and re-elect worker-friendly Republicans in the Missouri House and Senate and that requires asking union members to...

  Almost a million pounds collected in the Bi-State By ED FINKELSTEIN Publisher Responding to the needs of the hungry, Americans set a new record by donating 80 million pounds of food to the Letter Carriers’ annual food...