Tag: rally
After 12 years without raise, activists demand a $15 minimum wage...
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
Fast-food and low-wage workers in St. Louis and across the country went on strike last week to mark the 12-year anniversary...
Missouri home care, nursing and childcare workers rally around Biden’s $400...
U.S. Rep. Bush to care workers: ‘I will fight alongside you’
Flanked by signs bearing the slogan “Respect Us, Protect Us, Pay Us,” a socially...
UNITE HERE Freedom Riders rally in St. Louis as part of...
More than 1,500 members of UNITE HERE Freedom Riders from 21 different states joined Black Voters Matter in a cross-country Freedom Ride for Voting...
Amid nationwide hiring crunch, workers offer McDonald’s a solution: pay $15...
Strike by St. Louis McDonald’s workers part of 15-city walkout ahead of company’s annual shareholder meeting
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
As fast-food companies scramble to find...
Union retirees call out Missouri Republicans’ continuing efforts to defund Medicaid
Jefferson City – With Missouri’s Republican legislators once again ignoring the will of the people by failing to fund the voter-approved and constitutionally mandated...
Providing vital service for little pay, union bus drivers win $15...
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Belleville, IL – It’s tough enough driving a bus for sick people, seniors and others who need more help than just...
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 keeps pressure on Hawley to resign
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)Locals 2192 and 96, national representatives of the union, the Missouri AFL-CIO and other St. Louis area unions and...
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.)...
Resign Hawley rally, car-a-van set for Jan. 27
Join American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) locals 2192 and 96 and other Labor groups for a rally and car-a-van Wednesday, Jan. 27 calling...