An earlier version of this article originally appeared in Sartorial, a student-run magazine for all things fashion, beauty, and culture published at the Missouri State University. Text by Bryesen Cooper. Photographs by Braeden Cooper.
St. LOUIS – “With union support workers are becoming aware that they are pawns in the bottom line in a corporate drive for profits,” Claude Cummings, International President of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) told more than 200 St.
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For decades, union members have paraded through St. Louis on Labor Day. This year, for the first time, they celebrated the weekend prior with a festival in Florissant.
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters shuttered its St. Louis regional council. Oversight of St. Louis-area union locals will now come from the organization’s Chicago office. Pat White of the Greater St. Louis Central Labor Council and political scientist Anita Manion of UMSL discuss the fallout.