Retired Labor Tribune reporter Kevin Madden United Media Guild’s Activist of the Year

St. Louis – Retired Labor Tribune reporter Kevin Madden received the United Media Guild’s Activist of the Year Award at the recent annual Guild awards dinner for his tireless efforts to defeat so-called “right-to-work” (RTW) in Missouri from gathering signatures to place the measure on the ballot to the campaign to defeat RTW in the August 2018 election. Madden, the long-time unit chair at the Labor Tribune, also gathered signatures in support of other progressive ballot initiatives, including the Clean Missouri constitutional amendment to increase transparency in Missouri politics and eliminate gerrymandering of  legislative districts and the Prop B measure to increase Missouri’s minimum wage. Look for complete coverage of the awards program in the in the Feb. 21-27 edition of the Labor Tribune. – Labor Tribune photo