Labor Unions

In a new filing Monday, attorneys for Welch argued the Illinois Legislative Staff Association has no standing to sue over the speaker’s refusal to engage in collective bargaining with the would-be union’s members.

The workers’ employer, CBD Kratom, agreed to remain neutral as the union conducted its election.

The would-be union claims its members rights were violated under Illinois' 2022 ‘Workers’ Rights Amendment.’

BeLeaf Medical is arguing the post-harvest employees at its Sinse facility in St. Louis don’t have the right to unionize because they’re considered agricultural workers.

The new starting salary for teachers beginning with the next school year will be just shy of $50,000, district spokesman George Sells said.

It’s the first Toyota plant nationally where workers have publicly joined the UAW’s push to unionize across 13 non-union automakers in the U.S.

St. Louis Public Schools' bus drivers called off en masse Monday and Tuesday after a noose was found last week near a worker's desk at Missouri Central Bus. Some drivers say its an attempt to keep them from speaking out against poor working conditions.

At Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, negotiations are ongoing between campus leadership and the labor union that represents the university's clerical workers. A recent report found Illinois' public university employees were paid 21% less than state agency workers in similar jobs.

Union nurses at SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital walked off the job at 7 a.m. Wednesday. They plan to picket through Friday morning. The 48-hour strike marks the second action the union has called in four months.

After signing a three-year contract with a non-union provider, Anheuser-Busch will subcontract workers from union-staffed Clean-Tech for the brewery and its corporate headquarters.