Tag: Right-to-work
Editorial: It’s time to roll up our sleeves, again
Nov. 9, 2016 - The sun came up this morning. I looked up and saw ceiling tiles and not grass roots, so I knew...
‘Change’ election to bring RTW to Missouri
By TIM ROWDEN Editor & ED FINKELSTEIN Publisher
Americans voted for change.
For Missourians that change will begin with a serious and unrelenting attack on workers.
The...
Trumka: ‘The stakes in the Missouri gubernatorial race are enormous’
Missouri governor’s race most important in country
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Kansas City, MO – The race for Missouri governor is the most important gubernatorial race...
Humphreys tops $10 million in effort to buy RTW in Missouri
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Ten million dollars. That’s what union hater David Humphreys, president and CEO of Joplin-based TAMKO Building Products, and his family have spent...
Worker-friendly Republican proposes removing support of right to work from...
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Correspondent
An Arnold councilman and worker-friendly Republican recently proposed an amendment to the Missouri Republican Party Platform that would remove language supporting right...
State-wide poll shows Missourians strongly oppose RTW for 6th year straight
STLtoday story first posted online was wrong; data was misinterpreted
For the 6th year in a row, Missourians are strongly opposed to the phony right-to-work...
Federal judge rules counties can’t pass right to work
Refutes efforts by Rauner to do the same thing
A U.S. federal judge has ruled in a Kentucky case that efforts similar to those proposed...
Laborers’ Local 110 member’s son takes message about unions to legislators
Writes thank you letters to union, Republicans who voted ‘No’ on RTW
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Clayton Bruner, the son of Laborers' Local 110 member Mark Bruner,...
More than 60 worker-related bills pre-filed for 2016 in Missouri Legislature
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Correspondent
Jefferson City – After being defeated in this year’s session of the Missouri Legislature, right-to-work is back on the agenda in 2016...
Anti-union ads attacking Republicans who voted ‘NO’ on RTW
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Twenty Republican legislators who stood with Missouri working families in sustaining Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of right-to-work legislation are being attacked across...