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Missouri Local 840 Donates Essential Items
The Rolla Mission of Rolla, Mo., a nonprofit organization dedicated to help families achieve stable lives through a variety of support programs, received a donation of much-needed socks and underwear in early May, 2024, from LIUNA Local 840. This was their first Volunteer Organizing Committee (VOC) event, and aRead more
Bloomington Laborer named Governor Outstanding Volunteer Award
Joe Wilson of Bloomington, Illinois, was recognized as the “Outstanding Senior Volunteer” for the Illinois North Central Region at the 14th Annual Governor’s Volunteer Service Awards April 25, 2024, in Chicago, sponsored by the Illinois Department of Human Services. Joe’s nomination and official biography in the awards booklet reads:Read more
St. Louis Preschoolers Get New Playground Sets
Several St. Louis, Mo., Local 110 Volunteer Organizing Committee members went to work the weekend of April 12-13 to help build and install two new playground sets for the preschoolers of Kingston School in Cadet, Mo.
Even One is Too Many
Slow down, drop the phone, and pay attention - especially in work zones. Watch this message from LIUNA Vice President and Midwest Region Manager David A. Frye for 2024 National Work Zone Awareness Week.
The Problem
A National Work Zone Awareness Week Message from LIUNA Vice President and Midwest Region Manager David A. Frye It’s time to be honest with you. You’re the problem. Every year about this time we warn you, the motoring public, that highway work is beginning across the country. StateRead more
Local 42 Donates Clothing for Families
The St. Louis, Mo., LIUNA Local 42 Volunteer Organizing Committee (VOC) recently pitched in to help with a clothing drive for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Local 42 business agents along with members of the VOC delivered the clothing to the charity to help those in ourRead more
LIUNA Local 362 Shows Up to Support Jobs
On Monday, April 8, 2024, the LIUNA Local 362 Volunteer Organizing Committee and members showed up to the Bloomington, Ill., City Council Meeting to voice their support of a proposed Downtown Streetscape Project. Efforts like these keep our members working and providing for their families! Read more
Local 110 Helps the Unhoused
On March 23, 2024, the LIUNA St. Louis, Mo., Local 110 Volunteer Organizing Committee (VOC) partnered with community assistance provider MoNetwork to provide care items for the unhoused in the St. Louis area. The VOC helped purchase and distribute items such as hygiene kits, mouthwash, hand sanitizer, feminine products,Read more
LIUNA Local 773 Stands Up to Disinformation
What the National Right to Work Committee will tell you is that it exists to “combat the evils of compulsory unionism.” They will tell you they are a grassroots organization that exists to protect employees from getting fired because they don’t want to support a union. What they won’tRead more
Slow Down for the First Line of Defense
National Work Zone Awareness Week is April 15-19, 2024. In 2021, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, there were 956 work zone fatalities, and an estimated 106,000 work zone crashes. Flaggers work at the start of construction areas, warning drivers to be alert and slow down.Read more
Texas Local 350 Conducts Solar Panel Training
LIUNA Local 350, based in Houton, Tx., hosted a Solar Farm Installation training seminar in Kountze, Tx., recently. This first class trained 15 Laborers, with more training planned as solar gains traction across the country. "LIUNA is preparing our members for the work of today, and the future," saidRead more
LIUNA Local 829 Partners with the National Park Service
The LIUNA Local 829 Volunteer Organizing Committee recently answered a call from the National Park Service to help restore the gardens at the Jean Baptiste Valle House, located in Ste, Genevieve, Mo. Jean Baptiste Vallé is best known as the last commandant of Ste. Genevieve, a title he andRead more