IAM St. Louis District 837 readies for upcoming Boeing Defense negotiations
IAM District 837’s negotiating committee recently completed a negotiation preparation program ahead of upcoming contract talks with Boeing Defense in St. Louis. The week-long training covered essential skills, such as drafting contract language, presenting proposals, assessing the company’s strengths and weaknesses, and exploring various bargaining strategies. Aerospace Coordinators Bobby Barnwell, Stephen Jordan, and Instructor Jeff…
Read MoreLawsuit threatens Illinois minority teachers scholarship
Conservative group seeks to overturn race-based financial aid By JORDAN G. OWENS Medill Illinois News Bureau SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker has proposed continuing funding for a program aimed at getting more minority teachers in classrooms as a conservative legal strategist challenges the programs constitutionality in federal court. In his proposed budget for the fiscal…
Read MoreGSL’s Kost wins ‘Economic Development 40 Under 40’ award
Greater St. Louis Inc. Chief Business Attraction Officer Maggie Kost has been announced as a recipient of the 2025 Economic Development 40 Under 40 Award, the biennial award recognizing rising stars under 40 years old in the economic development industry. The awards program is hosted by Development Counsellors International, a New York-based integrated marketing firm…
Read MoreHoffman tours SIUE Belleville campus, highlights revitalization efforts
State Rep. Jay Hoffman, D-Swansea, visited Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s (SIUE) Southwestern Illinois Justice and Workforce Development Campus recently to see firsthand the results of state efforts to revitalize a vacant college complex into a modern campus ready to meet the job demands of today and tomorrow. Hoffman, along with state Sen. Christopher Belt,…
Read MoreEaton employee forces IAM union to abandon illegal termination, fine threats
Worker’s legal team still pressing labor board to prosecute union officials for threatening workers who opposed union membership St. Louis, MO (February 21, 2025) – Robert Jacobs, an employee of power management firm Eaton Corporation at its Troy, Illinois, facility, has forced International Association of Machinists (IAM) union officials to back off their threats to fire…
Read MoreUSPS announces pending departure of Postmaster DeJoy
The United States Postal Service recently announced that Louis DeJoy, America’s 75th Postmaster General, had notified the Postal Service Board of Governors that it is time for them to begin the process of identifying his successor. The Governors of the Postal Service, working with key stakeholders, will now begin the process of identifying an appropriate…
Read MoreState cracks down on Chicago gas utility as others, including Ameren, ask for rate increase
Gas prices could go up even more in coming years without state action By LILY CAREY, ANDREW ADAMS and Medill Illinois News Bureau, Capitol News Illinois CHICAGO — State regulators on Thursday [Feb. 20, 2025] ordered Chicago’s natural gas utility, Peoples Gas, to abandon its approach to a long-beleaguered pipeline replacement program. Consumer advocates praised…
Read MoreAs federal deadline approaches, Illinois Secretary of State urges residents to “Get Real”
Deadline for federally compliant ID May 7 By JADE AUBREY and UIS Public Affairs Reporting (PAR), Capitol News Illinois With a deadline approaching for U.S. citizens to obtain Real IDs, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is urging Illinois residents to “Get Real.” Real ID is a federally-standardized identification card that requires stricter proof of…
Read MoreMadison County offering matching Clean Communities Litter Grant
Madison County recently announced $25,000 in funding to be awarded from its new Clean Communities Litter Grant program. “We wanted to do something to get people more involved in helping to keep their communities clean,” Chairman Chris Slusser said. “For the past five years we’ve offered citizens litter kits to assist in keeping communities clean…
Read MoreEast St. Louis nonprofits awarded Tree Equity Grants to boost community tree canopy
Local nonprofits Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation (JJKF) and Lansdowne UP have been awarded subgrants by The Morton Arboretum’s Chicago Region Trees Initiative (CRTI). The subgrants, ($ 499,632.94) and ($ 280,120.50), respectively, are awarded to improve the community tree canopy. The three-year subgrants, launched in the first quarter of 2025, are used for projects that increase the…
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