Tag: Illinois
Southwestern Illinois Building Trades volunteers, retirees work to renovate St....
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
East St. Louis, IL – Volunteers from Southwestern Illinois Building & Construction Trades unions have been helping renovate an important resource for...
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....
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,...
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...
Labor women making wishes come true
Belleville, IL – The Southwestern Illinois Central Labor Council Working Women’s Committee’s ninth annual fundraiser will benefit Make-a-Wish Illinois with proceeds from a 50-50...
Metro East Labor Day events begin with softball on Aug. 23
Labor Day events in the Metro-East this year will begin Aug. 23 with a softball tournament and finish off with two parades on Labor...
Steelworker retirees awards luncheon is Aug. 14
Pontoon Beach, IL – The Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) Chapter 34-7-2 will hold its annual awards banquet on Monday, Aug. 14 to...
Everyone setting sights on St. Louis-area Labor Day parades, fun
There are great Labor Day festivities in the works in Missouri and Southern Illinois
By ED FINKELSTEIN
Publisher
With the theme “Together We Win” planning for the...
Illinois Representative Stuart plans two coffeehouse meetings
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Collinsville, IL – State Representative Katie Stuart (D-Edwardsville), a stalwart friend of working families, has scheduled two coffee shop meetings to talk...
Illinois Laborers win in lawsuit to update prevailing wages
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Belleville, IL – Illinois workers won a victory in court last month requiring the Governor Bruce Rauner administration to update and...