Tag: coronavirus
Entertainment, event unions call on St. Louis officials to release convention...
With entertainment, convention, hotel and restaurant business decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic, expansion of the America’s Center Convention Center in downtown St. Louis could...
Postal Service could end this fall without House-passed pandemic aid package
Republican-controlled Senate, President Trump are calling the aid package ‘Dead on arrival’
By ED FINKELSTEIN
Publisher
The U.S. Postal Service is at a crossroads: the essential public...
As unemployment scorches Missouri, $5 for Fight Fund prepares for the...
Simmons Hanly Conroy steps up with $20,000 donation
With unemployment in Missouri and the nation hitting record levels and expected to get worse as the...
No cases of COVID-19 among UFCW Local 88 Meat Cutters
Local 88 plants cut and package the meat; meat cutters in the news work in plants with a ‘kill floor’
By MARY ANN O'TOOLE HOLLEY
Correspondent
About...
Illinois AFL-CIO convention will be held online
Springfield, IL – The Illinois AFL-CIO will hold its 2020 convention online via Zoom on Tuesday, July 28, in accordance with Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s...
IN MEMORIAM: Painters Local 2341 member loses battle with COVID-19
Bruce A. Noss, a 30-year member of Painters Local 2341, died May 5 after a strongly fought, month-long battle with COVID-19 in the hospital....
IBEW 1, Stagehands 6 help seniors celebrate socially-distanced graduations
Hazelwood, MO – Members of IBEW Local 1 and Stagehands Local 6 helped convert POWERplex at the old St. Louis Mills mall into a...
Short session for Illinois Legislature nets Labor wins in response to...
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Springfield, IL — It was only a four-day session, haunted by the specter of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Illinois AFL-CIO...
SEIU Healthcare workers rally for hazard pay, protection at Touchette Regional...
Centreville, IL – Working with hospital patients throughout a pandemic, Ronald Miles, a behavioral health therapist and essential worker at Touchette Regional Hospital, says...
Illinois Labor’s ‘Snacks’ project keeps on giving
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Wood River – The “Snacks to Go” project of Metro-East Labor groups to help hard-stressed hospital workers kept on rolling last...