Tag: RTW
Receptions to thank representatives who stood with working families on RTW
The Missouri AFL-CIO and area labor clubs are hosting a series of receptions to thank Republican representatives who stood with working families this session...
Republican legislators who support working families speak out on RTW
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Republican legislators who stood with working families in the Missouri legislature on this session’s right-to-work legislation are making the rounds of...
Five GOP candidates for Missouri governor all support RTW
It didn’t take Missouri’s five major Republican candidates long to get to the meat and potatoes of what they think is needed to move...
Take that RTW: Missouri leads the nation in business creation
Missouri more than 10 points higher than second-place Kentucky
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Missouri led the nation in business creation in 2013 – despite NOT being a...
Koster urges members of Laborers 42 to get out and vote
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster, the Democratic candidate for governor in 2016, visited with members of Laborers Local 42 last week,...
Koch-funded AFP, mad about RTW vote, launches hate-filled advertising campaign
$100,000 to smear pro-worker Republicans
The local Americans for Prosperity front group is launching an advertising campaign packed with venomous hate speech against Missouri Republican...
MISSOURI WINS, AGAIN
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
With the successful defense of Gov. Nixon’s veto of the anti-worker right-to-work bill Sept. 16, workers across Missouri scored a victory for...
OUR VIEW: We’ve won a huge battle, but not yet the...
By ED FINKELSTEIN
Publisher
MISSOURI WINS, AGAIN.
The elation was palpable. When on Sept. 16 the Speaker announced the vote that unceremoniously dumped right-to-work once again back...
Friends who voted ‘NO’ on RTW
Working people and union members should know who voted with and against them on this session’s deceptive and destructive right-to-work legislation. Following are those...
SHAME! Who voted against working families and union members
These are the House members who voted against Missouri’s working families and in favor of CEO’s and out-of-state corporate interests.
Justin Alferman (R-Hermann)
Sue Allen (R-Town...