Tag: Election 2016
Candidates, labor leaders agree: Vote as if your life depends on...
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Collinsville, IL – It’s been a dispiriting election season at times, so labor leaders and the candidates they support not only are...
Schmitt threatens to kill Boeing jobs; COPE-endorsed Baker critical of his...
By ED FINKELSTEIN
Publisher
Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt (R) is playing roulette with Missouri’s good paying aerospace jobs at Boeing’s St. Louis plant and hundreds of...
Future of collective bargaining in Missouri on the line Nov. 8
1,000 turn out for St. Louis Building and Construction Trades rally to meet the candidates, get out the vote
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
St. Charles, MO –The...
Cloria Brown (R) intentionally deceiving voters in 94th District
Opponent Vicki Englund is the REAL fighter for working families
By ED FINKELSTEIN
Publisher
If there was ever a case of intentionally and deliberately deceiving voters, the...
Steelworkers formally endorse CJ Baricevic
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Granite City, IL – Saying “Baricevic stands with us, Bost let us down,” the United Steelworkers of America have endorsed CJ...
Richard Orr seeks to beat back attacks on workers in Missouri’s...
Republican opponent was hand-picked to beat Anne Zerr for her opposition to RTW
By MARY ANN HOLLEY
Correspondent
Richard Orr, the COPE endorsed Democratic candidate in Missouri’s...
Biermann seeks to claim new ground for Labor
By MARY ANN HOLLEY
Correspondent
St. Charles – Anyone involved in politics or the Labor Movement in St. Charles County likely already knows Kenny Biermann, the Democratic...
Trumka: ‘The stakes in the Missouri gubernatorial race are enormous’
Missouri governor’s race most important in country
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Kansas City, MO – The race for Missouri governor is the most important gubernatorial race...
Labor’s all-stars urge union members to vote or face decline
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Sauget, IL – It was like the All-Star Game at GCS Ball Park on Sept. 24, with a bright sun, green...
Humphreys tops $10 million in effort to buy RTW in Missouri
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Ten million dollars. That’s what union hater David Humphreys, president and CEO of Joplin-based TAMKO Building Products, and his family have spent...