Tag: right-to-work repeal
GOP lawmakers trying to make initiative petition process like Prop. A...
Legislation would add numerous fees, stipulations
Jefferson City – Missouri lawmakers are considering several measures backed by Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft that would change...
Beck files longshot bill to repeal RTW
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Even as Missouri workers gear up for the campaign and vote ‘NO’ on Proposition A to repeal last year’s deceptive and destructive,...
‘RTW’ will be on the ballot next year; education effort now...
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
So-called “right-to-work” will be on the ballot in Missouri in 2018. Now the work to defeat it begins.
“Hundreds of thousands of Missourians...
Missouri Secretary of State has certified petition signatures placing phony RTW...
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Jefferson City – Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has certified the petitions placing repeal of the so-called “right-to-work” before voters with...
Effort to defeat RTW is ‘going to be a long campaign’
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Missouri State Senator Jake Hummel (D-St. Louis), secretary-treasurer of the Missouri AFL-CIO, visited members of the South St. Louis Labor Club with...
Laborers’ O’Sullivan: ‘You can take right-to-work and you can shove it...
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
As Missouri workers move closer to the deadline to turn in petition signatures to repeal so-called “right-to-work” by placing the issue on...
Veteran Bricklayer retiree hits the streets to stop RTW
Jim Drabant says he’s on a mission for the younger generation
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Correspondent
Jim Drabant understands the importance of unions. They help set the standards...
Veteran Painters union member, 91, still fighting for workers’ rights
South St. Louis County – Bill Styles, 91, a 71-year member of Painters & Allied Trades Local 115, was recently visited at his home...
Court sides with workers in RTW ballot dispute; Day of Action...
Turn in petitions Aug. 8 at IBEW Local 1 in St. Louis
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Score one for the good guys.
The Missouri Court of Appeals...
Urgent call for petition gatherers; we need you NOW
URGENT CALL: Volunteers to collect signatures for the Citizens' Petition campaign are needed for efforts throughout the state this weekend and for the next...