March 2, 2017

Call Your Legislator About Paycheck Deception

Thanks for taking the time to contact your legislator. Your phone will soon ring and you’ll be connected directly to the capitol switchboard. Please be polite, […]
May 16, 2016

One vote seals fate of paycheck deception bill in Missouri Senate

From Labor Tribune: The Missouri Senate’s recent vote sustaining Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of a paycheck deception bill has proved that one vote really can make […]
April 25, 2016

Redefining What’s Possible for Labor

From Truth-Out: My dad has always been afraid of flying. Even when we had the money, he preferred driving, which was a challenge considering we lived […]
April 7, 2016

Editorial: American politics needs the balance provided by union dues.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch On March 29, as the so-called “paycheck protection” bill passed by the Missouri Legislature on March 3 sat in the Missouri […]
April 4, 2016

Push is on to stop paycheck deception

From the Labor Tribune Following Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of the Missouri Legislature’s paycheck deception bill (HB 1891) Missouri Labor leaders and volunteers have been conducting […]
March 30, 2016

Labor rally draws thousands to Jefferson City

From the Missouri Times JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Swathes of orange and yellow stood alongside patches of red and green and almost every other color of the […]
March 24, 2016

Missouri Senator Walsh drops truth bomb on supporters of paycheck deception

From the Labor Tribune: Jefferson City – After helping to lead a filibuster in the Missouri Senate to try to stop the anti-union, anti-worker paycheck deception […]
March 21, 2016

State-wide poll shows Missourians strongly oppose RTW for 6th year straight

From the Labor Tribune: For the 6th year in a row, Missourians are strongly opposed to the phony right-to-work law, the most recent poll conducted by […]
March 18, 2016

Missouri Gov. Nixon vetoes bill on union fees

From KC Star/AP: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has vetoed legislation that would require public employees to give annual written consent before union […]
March 17, 2016

Send a Letter to Your State Representative: Vote NO on Paycheck Deception!

A simple handwritten letter is a very effective way to get lawmakers’ attention in Jefferson City.  It doesn’t take much time–just a few sentences and that’s it.  Please print […]
March 17, 2016

Union members joined forces in last-minute push to fight paycheck bill

From Labor Tribune: By SHERI GASSAWAY Correspondent In Missouri, legislative discussion and voting on measures is unpredictable. It can take days for a bill to hit […]
March 9, 2016

Cashing in on Kids: 172 ALEC Education Bills Push Privatization in 2015

From PR Watch:  ALEC Continued to Cash in on Kids in 2015 and Beyond Despite widespread public opposition to the corporate-driven education privatization agenda, at least […]
March 7, 2016

How Representatives Voted on Paycheck Deception

From Missourinet: The Missouri House of Representatives has voted to send to Governor Jay Nixon (D) a bill alternately called “paycheck protection” by supporters and “paycheck […]
March 3, 2016

Missouri lawmakers pass paycheck deception measure

From the Labor Tribune: Jefferson City – (UPDATED) The Missouri Legislature has passed a paycheck deception bill, despite a concerted effort by Labor leaders and worker-friendly […]
March 1, 2016

Missouri House passes disingenuous paycheck deception measure

From Labor Tribune: By TIM ROWDEN Editor Jefferson City – The Missouri House last week passed, by a veto-proof majority, a paycheck deception measure targeting public sector […]
February 29, 2016

Ford Becomes Latest Major Corporation to Dump ALEC

From PR Watch:  Ford Motor Company confirmed to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) that it is cutting ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council […]
February 26, 2016

ALEC Pushes Prevailing Wage Repeal

An article from a year ago reminds who is behind harming working families’ wages. From PR Watch: As unions and working people battle “right-to-work” legislation in […]
February 25, 2016

Bipartisan Opposition to Paycheck Deception

From Labor Tribune: Last week, Missouri lawmakers voted a disingenuous paycheck deception measure out of the House and sent the bill (HB 1891) to the Senate. […]
February 22, 2016

Missouri House bill would do away with prevailing wage law

From Labor Tribune: Jefferson City – GOP lawmakers in the Missouri Legislature have opened a new front in their anti-worker attacks focusing on the building trades […]
February 15, 2016

Victory: Federal judge rules counties can’t pass right to work

From the Labor Tribune: Refutes efforts by Rauner to do the same thing A U.S. federal judge has ruled in a Kentucky case that efforts similar […]
January 28, 2016

10 Things You Should Know About Paycheck Deception

From Working America:  Since 2010, right-wing governors and legislators have attacked workers’ rights across the Midwest. These attacks have come in different forms: from stripping public […]
August 18, 2015

Gallup Poll: Midwest & Independent Voters Want Stronger Unions

With less than a month before Missouri lawmakers return to Jefferson City to consider a veto override of ALEC’s so-called “Right to Work” legislation, more Americans […]
July 1, 2015

Extremists Approve RTW Resolution, Bipartisan Opposition Remains

Opposition to ALEC’s so-called ‘right to work’ is and always has been bipartisan. Because RTW legislation would lower wages for all working Missourians. It is disappointing […]
June 4, 2015

Nixon vetoes controversial ‘right-to-work’ legislation

From the Post-Dispatch: ST. LOUIS • Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon Thursday vetoed a controversial “right-to-work” bill, calling it a threat to unionized workers and wages. “For generations, the […]
June 2, 2015

To #SaveTheEconomy we need strong unions

May 23, 2015

The conservative case against picking on unions, courtesy of Missouri Republicans

From The Washington Post: The vote was chaotic, with Republicans breaking age-old protocols to end a Democratic filibuster as the end of the session approached. The bill passed, but […]
April 22, 2015

New Report: “Right-to-Work” States Still Have Lower Wages

Brand new report from the Economic Policy Institute: In this paper, we update that research and subject the results to a series of robustness tests. We […]
April 21, 2015

Small Business Owner Tom Weis: “It’s kind of ironic that seven of the bottom ten states in per capita income are right to work states.”

“It’s kind of ironic that seven of the bottom ten states in per capita income are right to work states. If people say that it won’t […]
April 21, 2015

ALEC’s So-Called ‘Right to Work’ Attacks Expected on Senate Floor Soon

From The Missouri Times: [Senate Pro Tem Tom] Dempsey also told host Scott Faughn that he would be placing the controversial Right-to-Work legislation that passed the […]
February 13, 2014

The Case for a Higher Minimum Wage

The New York Times – February 8, 2014 The political posturing over raising the minimum wage sometimes obscures the huge and growing number of low-wage workers […]