Labor Unions

Rex Sinquefield's Next Target: Teacher Tenure

Bazillionaire free-market activist Rex Sinquefield has again gotten some national ink, this time in the Wall Street Journal. He was the subject of the yesterday's  "Weekend Interview", in which he said he's put on hold his dream of replacing income taxes with sales taxes in Missouri because vot ... More >>

14 Arrested in Occupy St. Louis March and Demonstration; Total Arrests Now at 51

Photos: Tony D'SouzaOccupy STL protesters march to the MLK Bridge yesterday afternoon.​If city officials thought that last weekend's forced eviction of Occupy St. Louis' tent encampment from Kiener Plaza would spell the end of the movement, they were mistaken. Yesterday nearly 1,000 Occupy support ... More >>

Union Workers to Join Occupy St. Louis for Major Demonstration Today

Photo: Brian VillaToday's march promises to be several times larger than Occupy STL's first demonstration (above) on October 1.​Several hundred -- perhaps as many as a thousand -- union workers are expected to join members of the Occupy St. Louis movement this afternoon for a massive march through ... More >>

Teachers Union Case v. Charter School District Going to MO Supreme Court

Teachers' rights to bargain collectively in Missouri are now headed to the state supreme court.​Are Missouri school boards required to collectively bargain with unions representing their faculties -- and, even more importantly, to do so in good faith?That's the question now heading to the Missouri ... More >>

Missouri CEOs Rake In Big Bucks

via http://www.wpclipart.com/​Feel like stoking your class envy this morning? The AFL-CIO has a tool for you -- a database of CEO pay. And it's pretty awesome appalling.Seriously, the stats the union has compiled here are enough to turn even the most enthusiastic capitalist into a Marx-spouting le ... More >>

7-11 Doesn't Want to be Opportunisitc, Preceeds to Beat Slurpee Summit Idea to Pulp

7-11 freaks out at the prospect of a Slurpee Summit. USA Today reports that the company got really excited when President Obama suggested the possibility of a "Slurpee summit" with the new Republican leadership. They've contacted the White House and offered to cater the summit. A new ad campaign wil ... More >>

Unions Lining Up Opposition to Rex Sinquefield's Prop A

It's definitely not fair to say that donations from local unions and their counterparts in Washington, D.C., will even the playing field with Rex Sinquefield. The St. Louis zillionaire has already donated an astonishing $10.8 million toward his campaign to force a vote on earnings taxes in St. Louis ... More >>

Giant Organic Egg Farms Come Under Fire

Not all organic eggs are created equal. Mother Jones looks at organic factory egg farms, which have been investigated by the Cornucopia Institute, an organic foods advocacy group. They've filed a complaint against farms for violating organic standards, and exposes the eleven major organic egg produc ... More >>

SEIU Rallies Outside Express Scripts, Inc.'s St. Louis Headquarters

Kase WickmanProtestors at Monday's rally outside Express Scripts' headquarters near UMSL​ For the last four days, two massive tour buses carrying 50 unionized employees of Express Scripts, Inc.'s Bensalem, Penn. facility have been rolling toward St. Louis. Monday afternoon, they gathered outside t ... More >>

KKK-Recruiting Union Official Booted from Federally-Funded Job Site

An officer with a local union has been booted from a federally-funded work site -- for passing out KKK propaganda on the job.Recruiting for the KKK can get you fired.​The man, an officer with the Local 53 chapter of the Laborers International Union of North America, has not been named. But Adolphu ... More >>

KKK Propagandist Forced to Resign From Union Leadership

The union leader accused of passing out pro-KKK business cards on a St. Louis job site didn't just get booted from the job, as we reported this morning -- the union has just confirmed that they've also removed him from a leadership role.Pro-KKK literature cost one man his leadership position at a lo ... More >>

Union Leader Recruited for KKK on Job Site, NAACP Says

A board member for a local union has been distributing promotional material for the KKK on a St. Louis County job site, officials with the Missouri State Conference of the NAACP alleged this morning.One T-shirt featured on www.kkk.com​Adolphus Pruitt, the NAACP's vice chair for legal redress, tell ... More >>

St. Louis Union Construction Workers Too Lazy and Costly, Says Head of Union

Terry Nelson drops the hammer on his carpenter colleagues.​The head of the St. Louis Carpenters' District Council of Greater St. Louis is making waves for comments he recently made in the press, blaming his members for being unproductive and contributing to ever-growing construction costs in the r ... More >>

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Employees May Pony Up $500,000 To Sully Lee Enterprises

Wikimedia Commons​Negotiations between the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's corporate parent and the local union that represents the paper's staff have so deteriorated that union officials have agreed to free up $500,000 in union assets for tarring and feathering. The St. Louis Newspaper Guild is n ... More >>

Jackpot! Last Minute Deal Saves Fairmount Park's 2010 Season

Just got off the phone with Lanny Brooks, director of the Illinois Horseman's Benevolent and Protective Association. He confirmed the early reports that Fairmount Park will indeed host 52 days of horse racing in 2010, a full schedule.Image Via​The announcement was made official at a 1:30 p.m. pres ... More >>

Deal to Save Fairmount Park Coming Down to the Wire

Four. That's the number of state union workers at the Fairmount Park racetrack in Collinsville who are at odds with the Illinois Racing Board.Three. That's how many days of racing the track will be limited to in 2010 -- April 27, 30, and May 1 -- if the dispute isn't resolved by February 1.Hundreds. ... More >>

This Week's Bumper Crop of Ass Clowns

​So many Ass Clowns this week. So little time. You know how to play: Vote for the local newsmaker you think made the biggest idiot of themselves this week. And the nominees...1. Kenneth Gladney: Gladney is the man whose attorney David Brown says was selling flags at a health care forum last month ... More >>

Forty Files: Highway 40 Photo Documentary, Vol. 8

"This project is moving along great, and that's because of the Labor Union and all the organized trades that have all played their part." Wait a second! That's the radio ad for the labor union! I've been brainwashed. Could it be because the radio spot runs every ten minutes during Cardinals games!? ... More >>

Union Lockout at America’s Center Escalates

The Morning Brew: Friday, 2.15

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 12/11

Pro-Vote Redux: Hickey Answers Back

Vet Vents

Week of June 14, 2007

Bad Blood

Ever hear the one about the unions and the convention bureau?

Lee Way

Is the P-D the "red-headed stepchild" of the Lee empire?

Nuclear Option

A new weapon is unveiled to end the beer battle

Hell to Pay

St. Louis' Catholic schoolteachers are ready to rap some knuckles

Hot and Bothered

Fight off the November chill with this extra-sizzlin' edition of Unreal (once we put our clothes back on, we'll check in with the Sanford-Brown Indians, pick up a few local papers and have our groceries bagged by inmates)

Strike Three

Managers park semis, regulars get crabby and allegations fly

Best Mayor

T.R. Carr Hazelwood

Purple Power

In less than four years, Grant Williams has turned a weak union local into one of Missouri's most potent political forces. So why's he placing all his bets on One-Term Bob?

Labor Pains

The New Line Theatre presents a legendary play that tackles unions, press, religion, the rich, even musicians and artists

Fine Print

Unhappy customers say a dealer's arbitration clause turned into a license to steal

Union Made

The music made inside Velasco's bar in Florissant is both defiant and relaxed

All in the Family

Pipefitters Local 562 isn't just a union -- it's a dynasty

Pipe Schemes

The powerful Pipefitters union has a simple plan to provide job security for its members: It wants to take away other people's work.

MAYDAY, MAYDAY, TWA UNION EXEC GOING DOWN

Did Tom Brown's tough stance against the W-1W Lambert expansion plan cost him his union position?

JUST DESERTS

Al DeLassus loses both a bid to become secretary-treasurer of Local 655 of the United Food and Commercial Workers and his shop-steward job

Greasing the Skids

Unicom takes flak over flacking for Wal-Mart

NORMA RAE, R.N.

Nurses at St. John's Mercy Medical Center vote to unionize

Short Cuts

TWA: One Strike and You're Out

Letters to the Editor

Internal Bleeding

St. John's Mercy Medical Center alienated their RNs when they turned to less experienced caregivers to save money. Now they're paying for it.

Short Cuts

The Tragic Christian

Father James Carney left St. Louis to work with the poor in Honduras, putting him at odds with both church and state. Fifteen years after his mysterious death, a new CIA report raises more questions than answers.

Historial Present

The End of Deseg As We Know It

City schools face an uncertain future -- a crucial court settlement, a Feb. 2 sales-tax vote, a teachers' union opposed to the tax, accreditation tests this spring and the prospect of a state takeover. It could be a school year from hell.