Tag: Missouri legislature
OPINION: Missouri lawmakers send ban on Project Labor Agreements to Greitens
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Jefferson City – Missouri lawmakers continued their assault on workers recently with the House sending a Senate bill banning Project Labor Agreements...
ONE MAN’S VIEW: PLA ban will kill workers’ wages, lower quality...
This is the first installment of a new column that I will periodically write to focus on issues — politics, events, people — that...
Murdered Laclede Gas employees, members of Gas Workers 11-6, recognized with...
Jefferson City – The Missouri House held a moment of silence April 24 for the two Laclede Gas employees, members of Gas Workers Local...
Missouri House passes Prevailing Wage repeal
Speaker denies Democrats opportunity to speak on the measure
BY TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Jefferson City – When it came time for final debate in the Missouri House...
St. Louis low-wage workers call for raise, while Legislature tries to...
As low-wage workers in St. Louis, organized by Show Me $15, protested outside a McDonalds on Natural Bridge Road for the city’s $10 minimum...
Construction workers: save prevailing wage, your paycheck. Call, write, email legislators...
Direct connect service available. Lawmakers home all this week.
By ED FINKELSTEIN
Publisher
The campaign to talk sense to Missouri Republican legislators over the prevailing wage issue...
Union sisters descend upon Missouri Capitol to lobby for working women
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Correspondent
A group of about 75 union women took to the Missouri Capitol March 8 to rally and lobby for working women and...
Missouri AFL-CIO tracking more than 130 bills attacking workers
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Correspondent
As if passage of the phony “right-to-work” (for less) law wasn’t a big enough blow to Missouri workers, Republican legislators are...
Missouri House advances ‘paycheck deception’ measure
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Republican lawmakers in Missouri unleashed their second, third and fourth wave of attacks on Missouri’s workers in recent days. Even as the...
Rep. Beck: ‘I have tried not to take this personally, but…’
By STATE REP. DOUG BECK
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Before the Feb. 2 vote on Missouri’s “right-to-work” legislation, Senate Bill 19, State Representative Doug Beck (D-Affton), a...