Tim Rowden

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief St. Louis – The Greater St. Louis Labor Council has endorsed Proposition A in the Mehlville School District in the Nov. 4 election, and IBEW Local 1’s Jimmy Lappe for state representative in the 81st House District next year’s election cycle. MEHLVILLE’S PROP. A Proposition A in the Mehlville School District...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief Chesterfield, MO – Laborers Local 42’s Second Annual Top Golf Fundraiser Sept.11 was a huge success with participants and for the veterans’ groups which will benefit from the event to support Laborers Local 42’s Veterans Committee and area veterans’ organizations. THE MISSION The Laborers Local 42 Veterans Committee’s is committed to...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief Earth City, MO – The rate of suicide for construction workers is 5.5 times the rate of all construction fatalities on the job site. How to support those affected by suicide was the topic of a seminar Aug. 21 hosted by Aetna, the Construction Forum and the AFL-CIO’s Missouri Works Initiative’s...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief Labor is banding together against President Donald Trump’s redistricting scheme – a brazen attempt to redraw Congressional maps in Texas and elsewhere to favor Republicans in next year’s midterm elections. As the Washington Post reports: “Republicans are exploring ways to redraw congressional maps in their favor well beyond Texas as President...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief St. Louis – Construction workers have a rate of substance misuse nearly twice the national average and a rate of suicide for men about four times higher than the general population. The newly formed STL Building Trades Worker Wellness Coalition aims to lower those statistics with a Labor, management and health...

‘You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.’ By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief The AFL-CIO’s “It’s Better in a Union” bus tour came through St. Louis last week, stopping on July 25 for a rally at UFCW Local 655’s union hall in Ballwin, where local and national speakers called out President Donald...

Sponsors sought to help ensure a great event By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief Veteran Labor champions Dave Meinell and Lew Moye have been named grand marshals of the Greater St. Louis Labor Council’s Aug. 24 Labor Celebration Parade. Meinell is vice president of the Greater St. Louis Labor Council Retirees Group and former president of the...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief St. Louis – D’Marco Fincher, a SEIU Healthcare member employed at St. Louis University Hospital, is worried about the future after deep cuts to Medicaid passed in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax cut and spending bill. The bill includes a trillion-dollar cut to Medicaid over the next 10 years. Fincher...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief Laborers Local 42 recently awarded three members’ children with $2,000 scholarships through the union’s annual Larry Flinn Memorial Scholarship program. The son of two other Local 42 members won a Missouri Kansas Laborers’ District Council (MKLDC) Opportunity Scholarship, which was also for $2,000. This year’s scholarship winners are: • Reilan Derryberry,...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in Chief St. Louis – Merri Berry, the barrier-breaking secretary-treasurer of the Missouri AFL-CIO, was celebrated on her pending retirement last week at an event at IBEW Local 1 that included heartfelt, sometimes tearful, tributes from local and state Labor leaders and a video message from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. “Merri, you...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief St. Louis – Communications Workers of America (CWA) members impacted by the May 16 tornado are getting a helping hand thanks to CWA Local 6300 and the National Women’s Committee of the CWA Human Rights Department, which partnered to organize a member-to-member supply drive to help members impacted by the storm....

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief Bridgeton, MO – Insulators Local 1 and a parade of dignitaries from politics and Labor recently celebrated former Democratic state Senator Gina Walsh’s trailblazing career on her retirement as deputy director of the Mechanical Insulators Labor Management Cooperative Trust (LMCT). The LMCT is a joint Labor-management organization representing The International Association...

$5 for the Fight financial assistance for union members also available By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief Jefferson City — Missourians left jobless by the tornado and storms that ripped through Scott and St. Louis counties and north and west St. Louis City on May 16 can now receive unemployment assistance, the Missouri Department of Labor has...

Assistance available through United Way, $5 for the Fight By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief St. Louis – The wind had barely died down from the EF-3 tornado and storms that hit the St. Louis area May 16 when union members began stepping in to help, both in their jobs and as volunteers. The tornado ripped through...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief Jeferson City, MO – Missouri workers started earning paid sick leave on May 1. On May 14, the Republican-controlled Missouri Legislature forced through legislation to take it away. Once again ignoring the will of voters, Missouri Senate Republicans used a rarely applied parliamentary procedure to end debate and ram through a...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief St. Louis – A union member who died on the job last year was remembered at the 45th Annual Robert O. Kortkamp Union Labor Mass and Interfaith Prayer Service on April 27 at the Shrine of St. Joseph, the patron saint of the worker in downtown St. Louis. The annual mass...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief East Alton, IL – Union activists, friends of Labor and United Way volunteers were honored at the 36th annual Labor Awards banquet hosted by the Greater Madison County Federation of Labor March 27 at Julia’s Banquet Center. LABOR LEADER OF THE YEAR Tim Owens, president of Machinists Lodge 660, received this...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief St. Louis – Fred Redmond, national secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, was in town Saturday, March 29, for a rally at the Gateway Arch, hosted by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the AFL-CIO, protesting President Donald Trump’s attacks on the federal workforce, and his recent executive order stripping federal...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief A federal judge ordered the reinstatement of thousands probationary employees who were terminated last month from the departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, Energy, Interior, Agriculture and Treasury, but that’s not what has happened says Tiffany McPherson, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) district coordinator: National Women’s Advisory Coordinator and a member...

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief St. Louis – St. Louis Labor Council delegates elected a new slate of officers at the March 18 council meeting. With only one candidate nominated for each of the officer posts, the following officers were elected by acclamation: President Pat Kellett, retired United Association of Plumbers, Fitters, Welders and Service Techs (UA)...