2013 Missouri State Council of Machinist Bass Tournament
Working Families Friends 10th Annual Texas Holdem Poker Tournament 4/12/13
YRCW Machinist have ratified a new contract May 6,2013
May 5 Marks 125th Anniversary of IAM - 21st Century Labor Union - IAMAW
Local Lodge Leaders discuss labor issues with Missouri Democratic Party members at the Cass County Back to Blue Banquet 4/13/13
Chris Koster - Missouri Attorney General speaking ----- Joe Capra, Ed Tervol, Greg Goold with Senator Paul LeVota, 11th District Senato
Winpisinger Bargaining Prep Class Pays Off for M1 Employees 5/21/13
Back row (left to right): James Sollars, Steve Jordan, Larry Young, Dave Hatcher, Mason Lucas, Jay Jaramillo, Gerald Krautheim. Front row: Jody Bennett, Joe Capra, Candy Buttimer, Kevin Surface.
IAM members at M1 Support Services have overwhelmingly ratified a three-year collective bargaining agreement that includes a two percent general wage increase beginning July 2013 and a three percent bump in both 2014 and 2015. The deal also raises the employer pension contribution from $2.45 per hour to $3.20 per hour...read
Hotel workers union rejects Pritzker as Commerce nominee 5/22/13
Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE), said his organization rejects Penny Pritzker because of a wage dispute among workers at the Hyatt hotel chain...read
Dems: Early data show premiums falling under Obama health law 5/22/13
Early filings show that insurers in some states are planning to lower their premiums after President Obama's healthcare law takes effec...read
Retailers Key to Bangladesh Worker Safety, Investors Tell Walmart, Gap
Many of the companies that import products from Bangladesh claim they are unaware of the safety and working conditions and sometimes even unaware of where their goods are made...read
Here's What You Said: Building a Stronger Labor Movement for People of Color 5/22/13
Union density is higher among black workers than it is for any other racial or ethnic group of workers...read
Crisis at the NLRB 5/17/13
Most people in America don’t know what the National Labor Relations Board is...read
Republican Filibuster Next Battle for NLRB Nominees? 5/17/13
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been under “relentless political attack [and] many elected officials are actively trying to shut the NLRB down...read
High-Tech Firms Want Low-Wage—Not U.S.—Workers 5/17/13
They are going back and asking for changes to language they helped write and blatantly trying to roll back requirements that give high-skilled American workers a fair shot at getting a job...read
Hall of Fame Honors Three Women Labor Trailblazers 5/17/13
The award ceremony honored Evelyn Dubrow, Viola Liuzzo and Anna “Annie” Klobuchar Clemenc posthumously...read
Sarah Bloom Raskin: Inequality May Hurt Economic Growth 5/17/13
central bank may be worried about the increasing gap between the rich and poor...read
Feds: U.S. goverment deficit is plunging 5/15/13
Lawmakers gearing up for what is shaping up as another bitter partisan clash over the nation's borrowing limit...read
Deficit To Shrink Rapidly Through 2015 Due To Rising Revenues, CBO Reports 5/15/13
The U.S. deficit is shrinking considerably more quickly than previously thought, the Congressional Budget Office said...read
Attack on NLRB Goes Beyond Washington, Costs Illinois Worker His Home 5/15/13
Marcus Hedger was illegally fired in 2010 from his pressman’s job at an Illinois printing company for his union activities on behalf of his fellow union members...read
What Planet Is the Washington Elite on in Debating Social Security? 5/15/13
75% of working people think we should be discussing strengthening Social Security benefits...read
Senate Democrats: Nuclear option for filibuster is back on the table 5/14/13
Senate Democrats frustrated with the GOP’s blocking of a string of President Obama’s nominees are seriously weighing a controversial tactic...read
The Labor Movement Gave My Family a 'Ticket to the Middle Class' 5/14/13
better life: a life of working in the fields of California, of sleeping outside or in a rundown shack that passed for “migrant housing,” of always being afraid of being hunted down and captured, and of never being certain of getting enough work to live on or of getting paid...read
Detroit Fast Food Workers' Strike Shuts Down Locations 5/14/13
Fast food workers at more than 60 restaurants in Detroit walked off the job Friday...read
Trumka: The 'Grand Bargain' Is a Dead End 5/14/13
In a “grand bargain,” Republicans agree to stop protecting millionaires...read
This Week’s Opportunity: Get Our Labor Board Working Again 5/14/13
What Is The NLRB? ...read
'Chained CPI Not a Tweak: It’s a Cut to Social Security,' Alliance Members Tell Congress 5/10/13
Chained CPI would change the way cost-of-living adjustments are calculated for Social Security...read
Young Worker Activists Come to D.C. to Discuss the Economy 5/10/13
Forum attendees engaged in substantive discussions about a host of issues that are most crucial to the so-called Millennial generation, born between 1980-2000...read
Report: 73.4 Million Young Workers Jobless in 2013 5/10/13
A stunning 73.4 million young workers are estimated to be jobless in 2013...read
House Passes Republican Comp Time Bill, but Likely DOA in Senate 5/10/13
the House yesterday approved a bill that if it ever became law, would mean many workers would work more hours for less pay...read
Several St. Louis fast food workers go on strike 5/9/13
April Thomas, 31, of St. Louis, was striking at a St. Louis Hardee’s, where she works as a kitchen leader. She said she has worked in fast food since she was 16, and makes $8 an hour with no benefits...read
Day Two Of Fast Food Worker’s Strike; Protests Move Through Area 5/9/13
Fast food employees are making their way through the St. Louis area for day two of a workers’ strike...read
Fast Food Workers Strike in St. Louis 5/9/13
We want respect, and we want fifteen and a union, and that’s not too much to ask for...read
Daily Job Death Toll: 150 Workers 5/8/13
Today, 150 people will likely be killed on the job or die from job-related illnesses and disease...read
Tell President Obama: Make Big Corporations Pay 5/8/13
A simple tool on the ATF website allows you to easily send the president your story...read
Don’t Let Republicans Cut Your Overtime Pay 5/8/13
John Boehner On Debt Ceiling: Let's Pay China First, Then U.S. Troops 5/8/13
Democrats have suggested, Republicans are basically choosing to pay China before paying U.S. troops, Boehner didn't disagree...read
Bangladesh Building Collapse Death Toll Reaches 761 5/8/13
Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster topped 800,government has closed 18 garment factories in recent days for failing to meet work and safety standards...read
GOP seeks alternative to overtime pay 5/7/13
give employees who work more than 40 hours a week the option of taking paid time off instead of overtime pay...read
A Different Way to Understand the Employment Numbers 5/6/13
The two surveys—one of employers’ payroll reports, the Current Employment Survey (CES); the other, the Current Population Survey (CPS)—are not perfectly comparable...read
We Want to Hear from You: How Do We Build a Better, Stronger Labor Movement for Working People? 5/6/13
AFL-CIO needs to be ready to make decisions about how the union movement should change...read
Michigan Moms and Workers vs. Restaurant Industry and ALEC 5/6/13
In early 2011, Walker pushed and passed a preemption law in Wisconsin, completely invalidating the will of Milwaukee voters who had just passed a sick days ordinance...read
Union-Made Mother's Day Recipes 5/6/13
Remember how mom used to make your food special...read
GOP Forcibly Making Working Families Flexible 5/6/13
A century ago, workers were a lot more "flexible" than they are now;distorting their lives to slog 10 or 12 hours a day, six -- even seven -- days a week...read
Death toll in Bangladesh building collapse rises above 650 5/6/13
The number of people confirmed dead has now reached 657...read
Walmart On Bangladesh: We're Open To Improving Worker Safety Conditions 5/3/13
Walmart has been advocating for improved worker safety with the Bangladeshi government, with industry groups and with suppliers....read
Not Enough Inflation 5/3/13
Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, spoke out in defense of his successor...read
Jobless Rate Dips to 7.5%, as Economy Adds 165,000 New Jobs 5/3/13
The nation’s economy added 165,000 new jobs in April while the jobless rate dropped to 7.5% from March's 7.6%...read
Chicago Teachers Are Unified and Unionized at UNO 5/3/13
The teachers and staff in one of Chicago’s largest charter school networks overwhelmingly voted to join the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff...read
'Better Than Ever': Union Workers Hoist Spire Atop the World Trade Center 5/3/13
Union workers, some of whom are also veterans, are rebuilding the World Trade Center...read
'Fix the Debt' Corporations Take at Least $953 Million in Taxpayer Subsidies 5/3/13
CEOs who run the 90 corporations in the '"Fix the Debt" coalition, which advocates for cuts to earned benefits like Social Security while reducing tax rates for, well, themselves, accept massive subsidies from the U.S. government...read
Is U.S. manufacturing making a comeback — or is it just hype? 5/2/13
what about when a Chinese company sets up a factory in the United States...read
Will Millennials Come Back to Labor? 5/2/13
whether or not young people in the United States will wake up and see that joining labor unions could be a part of the solution...read
Effort Under Bain Ownership, Citing Pay Rate Drop 5/2/13
Guitar Center workers are doing more work, and they're getting paid less for it...read
Bangladeshis demand worker safety as toll tops 400 5/1/13
Thousands of workers paraded through central Dhaka on May Day to demand safer working conditions and the death penalty for the owner of a building housing garment factories that collapsed last week...read
Worker Dies in Blender at Oregon Meat Plant 5/1/13
An Oregon cleaning worker was killed when he fell into a running blender at a meat-processing plant...read
Shoppers face tough choices over Bangladesh 5/1/13
It is hard for American shoppers to avoid buying clothes made in unsafe factories abroad...read
Death toll from Bangladesh building collapse climbs above 400 5/1/13
death toll from the South Asian nation's deadliest industrial disaster rose above 400...read
CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law 5/1/13
Almost three years after Congress ordered public companies to reveal actual CEO-to-worker pay ratios under the Dodd-Frank law, the numbers remain unknown...read
North Carolina Workplace Deaths Nearly Three Times That Reported By State: Study 4/1/13
North Carolina Department of Labor reported 53 workplace fatalities in the state in 2011. But if you ask the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that number is almost three times higher, at 148...read
Sen. Boxer to probe Texas plant explosion 5/1/13
The chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on Tuesday launched an investigation into the cause of the deadly Texas fertilizer plant explosion...read
Springtime for disclosure 5/1/13
“citizens can see whether elected officials are ‘in the pocket’ of so-called moneyed interests.” ...read
