After the arrest of two of its members in a fracas at U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan’s town hall last week, the Service Employees International Union headquarters released this web video seeking to uphold its image.

Details are…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An ad campaign that began last night is begging Illinois lawmakers not to cut home care and child care services funding to the bone. 

The latest ad campaign by SEIU Healthcare Illinois includes television, radio and print…

Gephardt

For the third day in a row Wednesday, Barack Obama made a key appointment to his economic team.

And, for the third day in a row, no mention of who would represent the Labor Department on his cabinet.

Obama continues to put off…

McCowan

If Green Party candidate Elston K. McCowan is going to gain any traction in his bid to unseat Mayor Francis Slay, it’ll help if he has at least some support from organized labor.

But even his own union is backing the opposition.

McCowan works…

John Hickey, the executive director of Missouri Progressive Vote Coalition (Pro-Vote), was removed last night by a vote of the group’s board at its annual meeting in Jefferson City.

Controversy surrounding Hickey had swirled in political circles last fall when he was…

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is apparently the first outside group to begin running an independent ad campaign for a favored statewide candidate.

In this case, it’s Missouri’s likely Democratic nominee for governor, Attorney General Jay Nixon.

According to the release:

The…