Tag: Metro East
Illinois Works program aims to increase opportunities for young people to...
By ROBERT KELLY
Correspondent
Metro East — High school seniors and other young people throughout the Metro East area are being recruited for a chance to...
$7.6 million in economic development, union work planned for Metro East
By ELIZABETH DONALD
Correspondent
Labor-backed leaders gathered to announce millions of dollars in redevelopment projects that could bring union jobs and economic development to Madison County.
The...
Tyson Foods plant expansion to create hundreds of new jobs, thousands...
By ELIZABETH DONALD
Correspondent
Caseyville, IL – State leaders are celebrating the expansion of the Tyson Foods plant here, a project that is expected to bring...
Metro-East Explorers get a taste of the trades
By ROBERT KELLY
Correspondent
Belleville, IL – The noise of hammers striking nails and electric saws buzzing through wood filled several trade apprentice classrooms in the...
Plumbers warn public of abuses, false promises by Tiger Plumbing
By CARL GREEN
Correspondent
Collinsville, IL – Union plumbers in the Metro-East have had enough of non-union companies making false promises to customers and underpaying their...
Metro East Labor legend Totsie Bailey stepping down as executive secretary...
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Collinsville, IL – One of the Metro-East’s top Labor leaders, Totsie Bailey, will step aside on May 31 after four years...
Explorer Scouts spend a week learning about construction jobs
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Caseyville, IL – More than 20 Metro-East high school students got a week-long taste of what it’s like to work in...
Some Metro-East COVID-19 restrictions lifted as concerns grow over lagging vaccinations
Edwardsville, IL – Some COVID-19 restrictions were lifted in the Metro-East last week, but the slow pace of vaccinations drew criticism of Madison County’s...
Metro-East trades creating library of videos on union trades careers for...
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Belleville, IL – It seems like a lifetime ago that building trades unions and a regional development group in the Metro-East...
Metro East under new bar and restaurant limits after COVID-19 cases...
Belleville IL – New restrictions that the Metro-East region came under last week are limiting access to restaurants and bars and limiting public gatherings...