Tag: protest
Laborers Local 955 – Columbia city workers’ union – hosts public...
Columbia, MO – Laborers (LiUNA) Local 955 members protested during the City of Columbia’s State of the City address on May 31 with banners...
UFCW Local 655 set to protest new Fields Foods location
Tax dollars shouldn’t support businesses that pay substandard wages and benefits, union president says
Missouri’s largest private-sector union, representing primarily grocery store workers, is protesting...
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...
AFGE Locals 96, 2192 protest systemic racism, discrimination at John Cochran...
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
On the heels of a historic settlement between the American Federation of Government Employees (VA) National VA Council and the Department...
Union protesters, Democratic lawmakers, others call on Parson to implement Medicaid...
Jefferson City – Voter-approved Medicaid expansion was supposed to take effect in Missouri on July 1. Instead, more than 100 mostly union demonstrators –...
St. Louis mayoral candidate Tishaura Jones joins SEIU Healthcare workers demanding...
Front-line workers at Blue Circle nursing home have been in negotiations for more than six months
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
Six months into negotiations with no...
AFGE, St. Louis Labor Council call on Hawley to resign for...
Missouri AFGE members: ‘Josh Hawley does not speak for us’
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
A steady drumbeat is growing in demand that Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)...
Airport catering workers protest low wages, high health care costs
Airline catering workers from LSG Sky Chefs took action Feb. 14 at 15 different airports.
These are the same workers who led nationwide protests against...
Protest spotlights Johns Hopkins’ bad record with nurses
Baltimore, Md. (PAI) — Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore may have a world-class reputation for medical research and care, but it’s anything but world-class...
Uber, Lyft drivers strike to protest firms’ cuts in pay, erratic...
Gig Economy (PAI) – From Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington and New York to Australia, East Africa and London, drivers for the so-called “ride-share” services...