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It’s not much of a shock that lies are popping up in the Republican presidential nomination race. But in Michigan, Mitt Romney is telling one whopper of lie about the UAW, the auto bailout that saved two of the nation’s Big 3 car manufacturers and President Obama. In a nutshell, Romney says Obama should have let Chrysler and GM go bankrupt—that should win him a lot of votes in Michigan today—and Obama instead “gave the companies to the UAW.” Read more >>>

The mission of the AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to Missouri. To accomplish this mission we will build and change the American labor movement.

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St. Louis Area Jobs with Justice is a coalition of community, labor, student and religious groups committed to fighting together for economic justice in St. Louis. Most of us have been working together for years on one issue or another.

*Many thanks to Mr. Roy Gunter, a long-time CLC Delegate and Office Holder (member IBEW Local 1) for his tireless service to the Council and efforts in researching all of the information in this article.

The Cape Girardeau Central Trades and Labor Council meeting minutes are complete back to 1963 and we can thank all the Recording Secretaries from Coletta Pinkerton up to and including Susan Hester for maintaining them.

This is an attempt to give a thumbnail sketch of the history as contained in those minutes.

The council in the 1960's was made up mostly of unions from the industrial side of the AFL-CIO with most of the Building Trades Unions not being represented. The minutes show ...