Tag: jobs
Jobless claims are dropping, but 16.86 million still need help
Washington (PAI) — The number of new claims for state and federal unemployment assistance dropped again in the week ending April 24, the Labor...
GM reducing shifts at Wentzville plant due to global chip shortage
Wentzville, MO – Two weeks after a 14-day shutdown due to a worldwide semiconductor chip shortage, the General Motors assembly plant here is reducing...
Climate Union Jobs Act calls for prevailing wage for Illinois renewable...
Would create hundreds of thousands of union jobs
A clean energy bill backed by a coalition of Labor unions, passed unanimously through the Illinois House...
Schatz transportation funding package earns Senate approval, with support from Democrats
Tax would provide $500 million annually, create thousands of jobs
The Missouri Senate gave final approval to Sen. Dave Schatz’s (R-Sullivan) transportation funding package. The...
Teamsters Local 610-represented AMR (Abbott) Communications Center hiring full-time call takers
Dispatchers and call takers at AMR joined Local 610 in November of 2019 and ratified their first three-year contract in August 2020.
Local 610 President...
Keystone XL pipeline would have cost at least 500 union rail...
Thousands of jobs in the trucking industry
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
Even as TC Energy, the main contractor on the Keystone XL project, debunked misinformation that...
No, Biden didn’t kill 11,000 union jobs by canceling the Keystone...
The number was far lower, but impacted unions are still upset
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
On his first day in office, Democratic President Joe Biden signed...
Illinois minimum wage increases to $11
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Springfield, IL – The minimum wage in Illinois rose to $11 an hour on Jan. 1 as the state continues its...
Unions collecting for holiday gift cards for laid-off Amsted Rail employees
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Granite City, IL – Labor supporters have a chance this month to help some hard-working union members and their families from...
Stagehands 6, IBEW 1 electricians making pandemic holidays a little brighter...
By MARY ANN O’TOOLE HOLLEY
Correspondent
Blessings came in small, twinkling portions, but members of the Stagehands (IATSE) Local 6 were glad to get the work...