Opinion: ‘Right-to-work’ designed to keep black workers poor
By LEW MOYE
“We must guard against being fooled by false slogans such as ‘right to work.’ ”
– Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
In his commentary...
Missouri Secretary of State has certified petition signatures placing phony RTW on 2018 ballot
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Jefferson City – Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has certified the petitions placing repeal of the so-called “right-to-work” before voters with...
Union iron worker robbed, killed after stopping to help four strangers
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Centreville, IL – Johnny Lee Lovett, Sr., a father and member of Iron Workers Local 392, was nearly home on Friday, Nov....
Rauner appointees side with Trump on controversial Crosscheck System, potentially disenfranchising voters
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Springfield, IL – Governor Bruce Rauner’s handpicked members of the State Board of Elections have voted to keep Illinois in the...
Workers Education Society celebrates three years of service
By ED FINKELSTEIN
Publisher
Now entering its fourth year, the St. Louis Workers’ Education Society (WES), a non-profit, grassroots community-labor worker-education organization, is racking up a...
IBEW Local 309 honors longtime members
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
IBEW 309 held its annual retirees’ luncheon Nov. 4 at Sunset Hills Country Club in Edwardsville, honoring veteran members with 50,...
Grad student-workers from Wash. U, SLU, UMSL, MO JWJ rally against GOP tax plan
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Clayton, MO – Graduate student-workers and Missouri citizens rallied outside Senator Roy Blunt’s office recently to protest the GOP tax plan that...
Retired IBEW 1 electrician and longtime farmer Al Roth is harvesting his last crop...
Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO – A well-known bit of American yesteryear is vanishing this fall as retired IBEW Local 1 electrician, 88-year-old Al Roth, harvests...
Santa will visit steelworkers’ kids Dec. 16
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Granite City – Holiday helping is gearing up in Madison County, where hundreds of steel workers remain laid off and...
New kids’ book tells sweet story of what unions do
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
This Christmas, how about getting someone a kids’ book that will teach them of the good that unions do in the...