The comments made last month by Missouri State Senator John Loudon portraying unions as violent thugs who “like to physically intimidate people” and “blow up cars” showed his contempt for working families. He conveniently ignored the hundreds of working men…
Stephen Derickson, in his letter in the May 5th edition of the Post Dispatch, said he was “incredulous that any pay differences based on anything other than length of service” still exist. How about things like productivity, hard work, creative thinking,…
Regarding the Editorial last Friday “Secret ballots, card check and politics”:
While it remains to be seen if Senator Arlen Specters’ recently announced opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act will doom this legislation (3/27 – Secret ballots, card check…
I have a message for the new President. I’ve been preaching it since I became a Teamster in 1970. Here it is.
MADE IN USA MEANS JOBS IN USA
Timothy C Donahue
St. Louis
I read Sen. Loudon’s article on Save our Secret Ballot. All that I see is that this is just another attack on labor unions and the American Workers right to organize and belong to a labor union. First it was…
I’m still laughing at the irony in the Christmas Day edition of the Post Dispatch. A playwright couldn’t possibly write anything more absurd. First, right on page 2, we get a story about how Hispanics (54% of which are illegal)…
Middle class workers are fighting a steep uphill battle. Today’s system is horribly broken, skewed heavily in favor of big businesses and their super-rich CEOs. As it stands, corporations can effectively veto their employees’ efforts to organize and bargain collectively…
Congratulations to, soon to be MR. Bush. In eight short and painful years he has managed to bring organized labor to the brink of extinction with Republican-sanctioned governmental policies favoring only the wealthiest few. With the last, best manufacturing jobs…
Your editors need to go back and retake their “English As A Second Language” Course.
The letter writer says “The only people who see the card are the union and the NLRB.”
He then says, “This guarantees privacy and secrecy of every…
In response to the March 29th letter written by Kathleen Ratcliffe I must say “Tread lightly Ms Ratcliffe.” In defense of the Union workers who practice their skills in St. Louis, and throughout Missouri, the March 30th letter written by Greg Gibson, “St. Louis’ legacy:…
