This article is republished from the Labor Tribune, dated January 2, 2017 The good, the bad and the ugly of 2016 By MICHAEL LOUIS President, Missouri AFL-CIO As so many people do, I have spent the last week reflecting on Read More …
Category: Driving Change
Women’s March on St. Louis on Jan. 21, 2017
The Women’s March on St. Louis march and rally will be held on Saturday, January 21, 2017, from approximately 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in downtown St. Louis. This march is in conjunction with the Women’s March on Washington, D.C., Read More …
New #GOV 101 Seminars Added
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! We have sold out (twice!) for #GOV 101 on Saturday, January 14th in St. Louis —even after moving to a larger venue which holds 250. Because of demand, we are announcing TWO MORE #GOV 101 seminars Read More …
Coordinating: The High Cost of Getting in Line
Coordinating. A benign term, right? It means what you think it might: Getting all the parts aligned to work efficiently for greater effectiveness – like an athlete coordinates movement or a meeting planner coordinates agendas. Gleichschaltung is the German word for Read More …
Enter the Praetorian Guard
If there have not been enough developments to give you serious pause, if not night sweats, about the incoming Trump administration, consider this: As reported by Politico, Donald Trump appears to be planning to maintain his own, private security and Read More …
Fighting for Justice in a Post-Fact America
With the battle – well, more like a massacre – of worker rights coming soon to Missouri I updated my files on Median Household Income. I planned on showing, using census data, that new Right To Work states such as Read More …