The Labor Tribune

AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust commits to helping fund 500 housing units By ED FINKELSTEIN Publisher The Labor Movement has once again stepped up in a big way to help in the proposed massive revitalization efforts north of...

Cross-training will provide opportunity to work across trades to keep members working By TIM ROWDEN Editor Explore St. Louis, the city’s convention and visitors commission, and the St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment (SLATE) are participating...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor Florissant, MO – When McCluer North High School teachers Amy Hancock and Adam Bender approached St. Louis County Councilman Mike O’Mara about getting help installing a new water fountain and water cooler/bottle...

St. Charles – IBEW Local 1 is picketing at EPC’s national headquarters at 3941 Harry S. Truman Blvd. in St. Charles to alert the public that the computer sales, service and recycling company is...

By SHERI GASSAWAY Correspondent For months, kids at St. Louis Children’s Hospital have watched in amazement as men and women in hardhats right outside their windows have worked on a 12-story expansion at the facility. Last week,...

As expected, money from anti-union, right-wing extremists just keeps rolling in for Missouri political candidates who pledge to make the state more “job friendly” through the passage of right-to-work legislation. According to the Missouri Ethics...

By CARL GREEN Illinois Correspondent Collinsville – Dale Stewart is getting excited about the November election. Stewart, executive secretary-treasurer of the Southwestern Illinois Building and Construction Trades Council, recently returned from the 12th Congressional District COPE meeting in...

St. Louis Emerging Labor Leaders (StELL) is hoping to make a connection for job seekers and those interested in joining a trades union with a career fair on July 30 at the Ferguson Community...

The “Action Team” of United Food & Commercial Workers Local 655 and the UFCW International have joined together once again in the fight against Sickle Cell disease. This dreaded disease can be devastating to...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor Terry O’Sullivan, general president of the Laborers International Union of North American (LIUNA) visited with members of Laborers Local 110 in south St. Louis County recently, meeting with both retirees and the...