Tag: Operating Engineers Local 520
Chicken and beer dance fundraiser March 4 for Op. Eng. 520...
A chicken and beer dance fundraiser will be held March 4 for an Operating Engineers Local 520 member injured while on the job at...
Unions ‘Touch a Truck’ family event July 1
Belleville, IL – Teamsters Local 50 and Operating Engineers Local 520 will bring trucks and join in the first annual “Touch a Truck” event,...
Laborers 397, Operating Engineers 520 call out non-union work in Pontoon...
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Laborers Local 397 and Operating Engineers Local 520 have a joint picket up against Precise Construction, a non-union subcontractor paying below area...
Ron Kaempfe retiring from Local 520, exiting Southwestern Illinois Building and...
Collinsville, IL– The Southwestern Illinois Building and Construction Trades Council will be getting a new president with the departure of Ron Kaempfe, who is also...
Operating Engineers 520 speaks up for Illinois workers’ rights
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Edwardsville IL – Members of Operating Engineers Local 520 are speaking up for Illinois’ workmens’ compensation system, with the help of state...
Madison County Federation will honor victim of gas line explosion
East Alton, IL – John Douglas Behme, the Operating Engineers member who died April 29 after a work-related accident, will be honored by the...
Judge: Workers compensation is not out of control in Illinois
Workers Memorial Day Observance
Alton, IL – Political claims that workers’ compensation cases in Illinois are “out of control” are not supported by the facts,...
Local unions picket Illinois AT&T
COLLINSVILLE, IL - Laborers Local 44 and Operating Engineers Local 520 recently picketed at West Belt and Keebler road where AT&T was using non-union...
Unions picket non-union job on Plains Pipeline
Wood River, IL – Metro East union members picketed all last week at a job site on the Plains Pipeline along Moreland Road, just...