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Rep. Cleaver Secures More Than $91 Million for Local Projects

  U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II announced that he has successfully secured $91.85 million in Community Project Funding for local projects across the Fifth Congressional District of Missouri, which includes the Missouri side of the Kansas [...]

January 18th, 2023|

IBEW President Lonnie R. Stephenson Retires, International Secretary-Treasurer Kenneth W. Cooper Named New President

    According to a statement put out by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers President Lonnie R. Stephenson is retiring, effective Jan. 4, bringing an end to a nearly five-decade [...]

December 13th, 2022|

Rail strike averted by forcing agreement between unions, employers

  After President Biden pushed Congress to halt a costly union strike, the “Pro-Union” President found himself in an awkward position of having to repair his image as organized labor’s biggest supporter. Biden signed into [...]

December 13th, 2022|

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IBEW Local 53 Sent Hundreds of Members South to Help with Hurricane Ian Recovery

November 9th, 2022|

Many Americans, particularly those in the south and southeast, have formative memories of hurricanes threatening their homes and communities. These hurricanes literally reshape lives and cities, wrecking a terrible toll both in economic terms and lives lost. The, often forgotten, background of these disasters is [...]

OPINION: Trudy Busch Valentine

November 4th, 2022|

Dear Brothers and Sisters: My name is Trudy Busch Valentine, and I am asking for your vote on November 8 to become Missouri’s next United States Senator. I’m a nurse, a mother, a grandmother, and a fourth-generation Missourian, and I’m running to put politics as [...]

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