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Family of Sheet Metal Workers’ 119-year dynasty Page 3

AFL-CIO’s ‘It’s Better in a Union’ bus tour comes to St. Louis ‘You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.’

By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief

Operating Engineers Local 513 members raise over $10K for fellow member diagnosed with cancer Page 3

Five IBEW/NECA projects earn honors in the AGC Keystone Awards Page 4

The AFL-CIO’s “It’s Better in a Union” bus tour came through St. Louis last week, stopping on July 25 for a rally at UFCW Local 655’s union hall in Ballwin, where local and national speakers called out President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” – now a big, ugly law – and Republican U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner, in whose district the rally was held.

Speaker after speaker criticized Wagner for her complicity in passing the bill, and her failure to stand up for Missouri workers and working families who will be hurt by the law’s cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), as well as Trump’s attacks on unions, union rights and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

BETTER IN A UNION: The AFL-CIO’s “It’s Better in a Union” bus tour came through St. Louis July 25 with a clear message for President Trump and Republican U.S. Rep.Ann Wagner that Organized Labor will not be swayed in the face of ongoing GOP attacks on working families.

– AFL-CIO photo

A cardboard cutout of Wagner stood in front of the bus near the rally podium, prompting laughter and cheers when it fell face down on the parking lot.

“Yeah, you oughta be facedown, it couldn’t be more appropriate than that,” Local 655 President David

Sixteen members of Laborers Local 110 remain on strike at Central Stone Company over wages.

Members picketing at the company’s Jefferson Barracks location at 5000 Bussen Road were joined on the strike line Monday, July 28, by St. Louis Labor Council President Pat Kellett, Missouri State Senator

Doug Beck, president of the Missouri State Building & Construction Trades Council, and representatives from Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562, IBEW Local 1 and Sheet Metal Workers Local 36.

Local 110 Vice President Brad Wilfong said members are fighting

for fair and competitive wages in their new contract. Their previous contract expired March 15. Workers had been working on extensions prior to going on strike.

“Most our wages are at the area standard,” Wilfong said. “We’re just asking them to give us equal to or competitive wages to what we’re getting with the other quarries.

They just don’t want to do it.”

See STRIKE page 6

Sheet Metal Workers Local 36 retirees restoring 1980 replica of historic SS Admiral

Model watercraft to be displayed at the National Museum of Transportation

HISTORICAL RESTORATION – Sheet Metal Workers Local 36 retirees (from left) Ed Hoganson, Kevin Ferguson and Tracy Pruitt work on restoring the 1980 replica of the historic SS Admiral, using original blueprints from the excursion steamboat.

Once complete, the model will be displayed at the National Museum of Transportation next year as part of the 100th anniversary of Route 66.

– Labor Tribune photo

By SHERI GASSAWAY Missouri Correspondent

Union and workerfriendly golf tournaments Page 11

See AFL-CIO BUS TOUR page 7

Laborers Local 110 strike at Central Stone Company stretches into fifth week Wages remain key sticking point

IBEW 309 hosts Gateway Grizzlies Night at the Ballpark for members Page 10

Cook quipped when the cutout fell during his remarks.

Cook, who is retiring this week, questioned how Wagner can sleep at night knowing she has failed to represent Missouri’s working families.

“I have always tormented with how somebody like Ann Wagner, the lady with her face down right now, can lay her head down at night and get any good rest,” COOK Cook said. “How can you know that in this big, beautiful, ugly bill that just passed that you didn’t advocate for any changes for the workers in your district or the workers of your state, or the workers of this great country that we live in? She knew that by passing this we’d have tens and hundreds of thousands of Missourians losing medical coverage. Those that need it the most are going to lose medical

A group of dedicated retirees from Sheet Metal Workers Local 36 is bringing a piece of history back to life by restoring a 1980 replica of the historic SS Admiral.

Originally built in 1907 as The Albatross (a railroad transfer vessel), it was purchased for its metal hull and rebuilt in 1937 as the Admiral, an excursion steamboat that

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operated on the Mississippi River in St. Louis from 1940 to 1978. The ship was briefly re-purposed as an amusement center in 1987 and converted to a gambling venue called President Casino in the 1990s. It was

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IN MEMORIAM: Former Bricklayers Local 1 Business Manager Jim Kavanaugh J a m e s “ J i m” Michael Kavanaugh, former business manager of Bricklayers Local 1, passed away peacefully on July 10, 2025 KAVANAUGH at age 87.

Brother Kavanaugh began his career as a bricklayer at just 16 years old. Over the next 45 years, he became not only a skilled tradesman but also a respected leader, serving as business manager of Bricklayers Local 1 until he retired in 1999.

‘REALLY SMART, WELL READ’ “We were tighter than bark on a tree,” said Joe Scholau, former Bricklayers Local 1 secretary-treasurer, who worked side-by-side with Kavanaugh for 14 years. “Jim was really smart and very well read. He always said what was on his mind.”

Brother Kavanaugh was a ferocious fighter on behalf of all Local 1 Bricklayers and is credited with founding the Local 1 Supplemental Pension Fund in 1991, an asset that still exists to this day.

‘TAUGHT ME A LOT’ “He was a great guy who taught me a lot,” said Don Brown, former director of the Bricklayers and Allied Craft Administrative District Council (BAC ADC) of Eastern Missouri. “It was a pleasure working under Jim, and I have a ton of respect for him.”

BAC ADC Director Brian Jennewein said Brother Kavanaugh was respected industry-wide.

“Past, present and future members owe Jim a debt of gratitude,” Jennewein said. “Because of his leadership and determination to improve our benefits, our members and their families are better off today.”

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“Our retirees with the coordination skills of Brother Ed Hoganson

Born on Sept. 12, 1937, Brother Kavanaugh lived a full and purposedriven life. On Aug.1, 1959, he married his best friend and the love of his life, Mary Ann (Haag) Kava-

See ADMIRAL page 12

See KAVVANAUGH page 11

dismantled for scrap in 2011.

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10 terrible ways the GOP budget causes harm

By SARAH ANDERSON and LINDSAY KOSHGARIAN

ANDERSON

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The GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” passed by the narrowest of margins in Congress and signed into law by President Trump, represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery. The slashing of vital services will cause a surge of economic insecurity and preventable deaths while massive hikes in military and deportation funding will serve to perpetuate endless wars and the senseless destruction of immigrant families and their communities.

1. Death by denial of healthcare Cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, combined with new administrative hurdles to accessing benefits, could result in an estimated 51,000 preventable deaths per year. Overall, the new law and other policy changes from the Trump administration will likely strip health insurance from about 17 million people. Research shows that the rigid, red tape-laden work requirements in the bill are unlikely to actually increase employment. Most Medicaid enrollees already work, and even those who do work can end up without healthcare if red tape trips up their ability to prove it.

Those who do not work are often caring for family members or attending school or have a disability. Formerly incarcerated people also face particularly high barriers to employment.

2. Hospital apocalypse The budget reduces the allowable Medicaid provider taxes that many states use to fund this vital program. The threat is particularly severe for rural hospitals because they rely more heavily on Medicaid revenue than urban facilities. More than 700 rural hospitals are already at risk of closure, and at least 338 rural hospitals, including hospitals in nearly every state, are at increased risk due to changes in this budget. To buy off critics, Republicans included a rural health fund that is expected to cover less than a third of projected rural Medicaid losses.

3. Taking food from the mouths of hungry people New work requirements for SNAP benefits will take food assistance from millions of people, including children and veterans.

As with Medicaid, new work requirements for SNAP would have little effect on employment but would cause more children to go hungry.

4. Squeezing states on SNAP This vital food program has always been fully federally funded, but the newly passed budget will require states to take on a significant share of the costs. This unprecedented burden shift will likely lead many states to cut enrollees or even terminate food aid programs for the first time since their inception, causing even more people to go hungry.

5. Barring lawfully present immigrants from aid Hundreds of thousands of lawfully present immigrants, including children, who’ve fled persecution and violence in their home countries in search of safety in the United States (refugees, asylum seekers, some victims of sex or labor trafficking, some victims of domestic violence, and people with temporary protected status) will lose access to Medicaid, the Childrens’ Health Insurance Program, Medicare, ACA tax

The answer to Medicaid cuts should be Medicare for All

credits, and SNAP benefits. And 2.6 million U.S. citizen children who live with only an undocumented adult are expected to lose their Child Tax Credit.

By JACKSON DIIANNI system is so expensive (high administrative 6. Terrorizing immigrant families Common Dreams costs, the government’s inability to negotiThe GOP budget provides roughly another $170 billion to arrest, detain, and deport imFollowing the recent passage of U.S. ate drug prices), but one crucial reason is migrants, and for a border wall and militaPresident Donald Trump’s domestic policy that we’ve opted for a patchwork system. rization in the next few years. That includes agenda, there’s been a lot of discussion about America has four models for healthcare — $45 billion for building new immigration how the bill will affect average Americans. one system for the workforce, one system detention centers, including family detention One provision which has received a lot of at- for people over 65, one system for veterfacilities — a 265 percent increase on an antention in particular has been the proposed ans, and no system at all for the roughly eight percent of the country that remains nual basis that would primarily benefit pricuts to Medicaid. vate companies contracted to build and run Medicaid represents a crucial stopgap for uninsured.

Pretty much every other country has detention facilities. It includes an additional working Americans, one of the few things $29.9 billion for deportation operations and keeping our healthcare system afloat as costs settled on one model for everyone, because $46.6 billion for border wall construction. have skyrocketed. Cuts to the program could it’s cheaper and less convoluted. That’s 7. Takes from the poor to give to the rich have devastating effects. For instance, the sensible way of doing things. In 2020, New tax policies would overwhelmingly many of the country’s rural hos- a comparative analysis of 22 separate benefit the wealthiest housepitals (as well as nursing homes studies found that Medicare for All would holds. Cuts to health care, and community health clinics) save billions, if not trillions of dollars, for Guest student loans, and other vital rely heavily on Medicaid pay- Americans. services would wipe out the ments and could be forced to BROADLY POPULAR minor tax benefits for working shut their doors without them.

Medicare For All is broadly popular, families. A Yale analysis of the It’s estimated this could lead to Views from Near and Far supported by the majority of the populabill’s combined tax and spendthousands of deaths. ing policies finds that the poorest 20 percent The Democratic Party has yet to come up tion, and affects everyone in the country. of households would suffer a net income loss with a viable alternative to this. Fortunately, We know that it works and would do an of $700 per year on average while the top one there’s a solution. And it happens to be sup- enormous amount to relieve people’s percent would receive a $30,000 increase. ported by the majority of Americans — em- financial burdens. The top cause of bankruptcy in America is medical debt.

Other tax changes benefit the wealthibrace Medicare for All. This program would also save tens of est while leaving the poorest without help.

PATIENT CARE thousands of lives every year. If it were to Despite modest increases in the maximum OVER PROFIT pass, it might secure a voting base for the Child Tax Credit, the budget will still deny America is the only country in the de- Democratic Party for at least a generation, benefits to an estimated 17 million children veloped world without a universal health- the way Social Security and the original whose parents earn too little to receive the care system. Our current model for care is Medicare bill did. full credit. For the wealthy, changes to the It’s essential that we transition to a bloated, wasteful, inhumane, and driven by estate tax mean that wealthy heirs will enjoy corporate greed. According to a 2024 report system that prioritizes patient care over a one-time tax savings of $6.4 million while by the Commonwealth Fund, the U.S. ranked profit. We must follow the example of every 99.8 percent of American families would not last when compared with 10 other wealthy, other developed country and guarantee get a single penny from this tax cut. industrialized nations on metrics such as life healthcare coverage to all our citizens as 8. Leaving corporations to enjoy their spoils expectancy, preventable deaths, and access a basic human right.

The budget keeps the corporate tax rate (Jackson Diianni is a freelance writer to care, despite spending by far the most on at 21 percent, a drastic reduction from the 35 who has published political essays in Salon. healthcare. percent pre-2018 rate – despite the fact that It’s essential that we transition to a system com, as well as cultural criticism in Passion ordinary workers have not benefited from of the Weiss and Culture Catch. Reprinted that prioritizes patient care over profit. this rate reduction. The budget also includes There are several reasons why America’s from Common Dreams.) more than $1 billion in new tax breaks and subsidies for the fossil fuel industry – on top of existing subsidies for the industry that accelerate climate change while costing Opinions expressed taxpayers an estimated $17 billion per year. are those of the 9. Rewarding polluters while raising energy individual – costs not their union.

The budget allows oil and gas companies to avoid paying fees for polluting methane leaks Speak Out that are a major cause of climate change, while cuts to clean energy subsidies could mean that household energy bills could spike by $415 a year over the next decade.

10. Funding war and enriching war profiteers President Trump is requesting a recordhigh $1.011 trillion for the Pentagon and war for FY 2026. Because regular appropriations bills require a 60-vote Senate majority, the GOP included a $150 billion boost for the Pentagon through the reconciliation bill, which requires only a straight majority.

They included $25 billion to begin building the “Golden Dome,” a missile defense system that is economically and physically impossible and would only drain more money from social programs to enrich wealthy Pentagon contractors, including Elon Musk; as well A GROUP OF ABOUT 25 union members showed up last week in support of warehouse workers at as $14 billion for new artificial-intelligenceMotors and Armatures ahead of an organizing vote with Teamsters Local 688.

– Labor Tribune photo driven weapons that will further enrich tech companies while making wars more deadly.

Teamsters Local 688 wants to acknowledge Chapter (CBTU). the following for their help in showing work- • Missouri Jobs with Justice (JWJ).

A MORAL BUDGET ers at Motors and Armatures what a union • Painters District Council 58.

VERSUS POLICY VIOLENCE family looks like. Your help on July 17, 18 and • American Federation ofTeachers (AFT) Local Instead of inflicting policy violence on the 21 was incredible. The way you chanted “Vote 420. most vulnerable, Congress should harness Yes!” for 20 minutes helped not only us in the • Sheet Metal Workers Local 36 retiree Don America’s abundant wealth to create a moral heat but brought some honks and smiles to Moushey. economy that works for all of us. By fairly the core of these workers. So a big thanks to: • United Autoworkers’ (UAW) John Bowman, taxing the wealthy and big corporations, • Teamsters Joint Council 13’s Locals 600, president of the St. Louis County NAACP. reducing our bloated military budget, and • And my Local 688 Volunteer Committee.

610 and 833. de-militarizing immigration policy, we could Thank you all!

• Teamsters Local 688 Retirees Club. free up more than enough public funds to enMIKE MARQUARDT • Teamsters Horsemen Chapter 13.

See GOP BUDGET page 4 Teamsters Local 688 Organizer • Coalition of Black Trade Unionists St. Louis

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Operating Engineers Local 513 members raise over $10K for fellow member diagnosed with cancer

BRIDGETON, MO – A group of Operating Engineers Local 513 members hosted a fish fry here at the Bridgeton Municipal Athletic Complex at 13161 Taussig Road for fellow member Matt West as he fights Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and undergoes chemotherapy. The group raised $10,450 at the July 18 event to help with West’s medical expenses and ongoing care. If you would like to make a donation, visit gofundme.com/f/support-matt-west-in-his-fight-against-cancer.

– Tim Miller/Operating Engineers Local 513 photo WITH 119 YEARS OF SERVICE, the Hancock Family, all proud, now retired, members of Sheet Metal Workers Local 36, celebrated the retirement this month of “youngest son” Tim Hancock (center) after 30 years as a sheet metal worker. Offering congratulations are dad Earl Hancock (left) with 37 years of service (15 years in St. Louis Local 36 and 22 years in Illinois Local 268) and brother Dan Hancock (18 years of service). Brother Rick Hancock (insert) with 34 years of service was out-of-town. The occasion was a family gathering July 19 to celebrate Tim’s retirement.

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Five IBEW/NECA projects earn honors in the AGC Keystone Awards St. Louis – Five projects by IBEW/NECA Electrical Connection contractors are finalists in the prestigious Associated General Contractors of Missouri (AGCMO) Keystone Awards.

G u a r a n t ee Elec tric a l and PayneCrest Electric are being saluted for project excellence in the annual award program.

Since 1997, 115 IBEW/NECA projects have been honored in the AGC Keystone Awards. The Electrical Connection is a partnership of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1 and the St. Louis Chapter of the National Electrical Contractor Association (NECA).

GUARANTEE PROJECTS The honored projects span healthcare, office, aviation, solar and agriculture industries. NECA contractor Guarantee is being honored for four projects including: • USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service Lab in Normandy, Mo. – The 18-month project tasked Guarantee with helping to engineer and install power, safety, and communications

NECA CONTRACTOR PAYNECREST Electric was honored for delivering with meticulous attention to detail to transform open office space on the Express Scripts campus into Clayco’s dynamic new St. Louis headquarters with numerous amenities.

technology at the lab, all within strict federal guidelines. As one of only three such facilities in the country, the project represented both a technical achievement and a new cornerstone of the nation’s food security system.

• Gary C.Werths Building at Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis – An al-

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(Sarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project and coedits Inequality.org at the Institute for Policy Studies. Lindsay Koshgarian is the program director of the National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies. Reprinted from Inequality.org.)

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Labor History JULY 28 1869 – Women shoemakers in Lynn, Mass., create Daughters of St. Crispin, demand pay equal to that of men.

1901 – Harry Bridges is born in Australia. He came to America as a sailor at age 19 and went on to help form and lead the militant Int’l Longshore and Warehouse Union for more than 40 years.

1932 – Federal troops burn the shantytown built near the U.S. Capitol by thousands of unemployed WWI veterans, camping there to demand a bonus they had been promised but never received.

2002 – Nine miners are rescued in Sommerset, Pa., after being trapped for 77 hours 240 feet underground in the flooded Quecreek Mine.

JULY 29 1891 – The Coast Seamen’s Union merges with the Steamship Sailors’ Union to form the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific.

1903 – A preliminary delegation from Mother Jones’ March of the Mill Children from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt’s summer home in Oyster Bay, Long Island, publicizing the harsh conditions of child labor, arrives today. They are not allowed through the gates.

1956 – Nineteen fire fighters die while responding to a blaze at the Shamrock Oil and Gas Corp. refinery in Sun Ray, Texas.

1970 – Following a five-year table grape boycott, Delano-area growers file into the United Farm Workers union hall in Delano, Calif., to sign their first union contracts.

President Lyndon Johnson signs the Social Security Act at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Mo., 1965

1975 – Former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears.

Declared legally dead in 1982, his body has never been found.

1999 – United Airlines agrees to offer domestic-partner benefits to employees and retirees worldwide.

Trump signs executive order banning word Epstein

JULY 31 1970 – Members of the National Football League Players Association begin what is to be a two-day strike, their first. The issues: pay, pensions, the right to arbitration and the right to have agents.

1999 – The Great Shipyard Strike of 1999 ends after Steelworkers at Newport News Shipbuilding ratify a breakthrough agreement which nearly doubles pensions, increases security, ends inequality, and provides the highest wage increases in company and industry history to nearly 10,000 workers at the yard.

The strike lasted 15 weeks.

– Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Crowd of demonstrators being driven into the Hilo harbor by police gunfire, 1938

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Frank Little’s gravestone in Butte’s Mountain View Cemetery.

1918 – The first General Strike in Canadian history is held in Vancouver, organized as a one-day political protest against the killing of draft evader and labor activist Albert “Ginger” Goodwin, who had called for a general strike in the event that any worker was drafted

JULY 30 1965 – President Lyndon Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

1917 – After organizing a strike of metal miners against the Anaconda Company, Wobbly organizer Frank Little is dragged by six masked men from his Butte, Mont., hotel room and hung from the Milwaukee Railroad trestle. Years later writer Dashiell Hammett would recall his early days as a Pinkerton detective agency operative and recount how a mine company representative offered him $5,000 to kill Little.

Hammett says he quit the business that night.

1921 – Sid Hatfield, police chief of Matewan, W. Va., a longtime supporter of the United Mine Workers union, is murdered by company goons. This soon led to the Battle of Blair Mountain, a labor uprising also referred to as the Red Neck War. 1938 – Police in Hilo, Hawaii, open fire on 200 demonstrators supporting striking waterfront workers.

The attack became known as “the Hilo Massacre.”

Washington (Satire from The Borowitz Report) — Stating that “enough is enough,” on Thursday Donald J. Trump signed an executive order banning the use of the word “Epstein.”

Although he provided few details as to how the order would be enforced, Trump hinted that anyone found using the word “Epstein” could be deported to South Sudan.

“We’re looking into that very strongly,” he said.

“Epstein” was just one of over 100 words banned by the executive order, including “inflation,” “dementia,” and “moron.” against his will.

1939 – Hatch Act is passed, limiting political activity of executive branch employees of the federal government.

AUGUST 3 1986 – Florence Reece dies in Knoxville, Tenn., at 86. She was a Mine Workers union activist and author of Which Side Are You On?, written after her home was ran-

sacked by Harlan County sheriff J.H. Blair and his thugs during a 1931 strike.

1981 – Some 15,000 air traffic controllers strike. President Reagan threatens to fire any who do not return to work within 48 hours, saying they “have forfeited their jobs” if they do not. Most stay out and are fired Aug. 5.

(Compiled by David Prosten, founder Union Communication Services)

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Second Wednesday, 10 a.m. (unless notified) at IBEW Local 702 at 106 N. Monroe St., West Frankfort, Ill.

LOCAL UNIONS Boilermakers Local 363

Meetings are the second Wednesday of each month at 8 p.m. at the union hall, 2358 Mascoutah Avenue, Belleville.

IBEW Local 309

Regular union meetings are held on first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at Local Union Hall, 2000 Mall Street, Route 157, Collinsville, Ill. Executive Board — Executive board meetings are held at 5:30 p.m. on Thurs­day preceding each regular union meeting at the IBEW Local 309 Hall, 2000A Mall St., Collins­ville.

Iron Workers 392

Meets the last Friday of the month at 7 p.m. at 2995 Kingshighway, East St. Louis.

Plumbers & Gasfitters Local 360

Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 101

Union Meetings will be held on the 4th Wednesday of the month except December, which will be held on the 3rd Wednesday. The meetings will be held at the Local 101 Hall located at 8 Premier Drive in Belleville, IL 62220 at 7:30 p.m.

Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 160

Union meetings are on the second Friday of the month at 8 p.m. at the hall, 901 Mulberry Street, Murphysboro, Ill. 62966.

Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 553

First Tuesday of each month September through May, 7 p.m., 967 East Airline Dr., East Alton, IL 62024.

Sheet Metal Workers Local 268

Caseyville Meetings: Fourth Thursday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in the Sheet Metal Workers’ Hall, 2701 N. 89th Street, Casey­ville, Ill. 62232.

Southern counties: Meetings will be held at 6 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month at the training center, 13963 Route 37, Johnston City, Ill.

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Steamfitters Local 439

Meets first Wednesday of each month, 7:30 p.m. in the Donald Bailey Building, 1220 Donald Bailey Dr., Caseyville, Ill. 62232-2061.

MISSOURI CENTRAL BODIES Greater St. Louis Labor Council, AFL-CIO

Third Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., IBEW Local 1 Hall, 5850 Elizabeth Ave., St. Louis.

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Strike From page 1

Calendar of Events AUGUST

STILL ON STRIKE – Laborers Local 110 members remain on strike at Central Stone Company over wages. Taking part in the picket at the company’s Jefferson Barracks (Oakville) location on July 28 were (front row center, holding signs) Local 110 members and Central Stone employees Luke Goodwin, Buck Wieda and Adam Hofstetter and (back row, from left) Missouri State Senator Doug Beck (Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562), Local 562’s Frank Schuette, Local 110 Vice President Brad Wilfong, IBEW Local 1 member and candidate for 81st House Jimmy Lappe, St. Louis Labor Council President Pat Kellett, Local 110 Government Affairs Director Clint McBride and Sheet Metal Workers Local 36 retiree Don Moushey. – Labor Tribune photo

Wilfong said the Laborers are on strike at four of the company’s quarries, including the Jefferson Barracks, Imperial, Pevely and Eureka locations.

Local 110 is asking the public to call the Central Stone at 314-8309000 to ask the company to do the right thing and give the Laborers the fair wages they deserve.

Aug. 20-23 – James Stanley Memorial Charity Softball Tournament, sponsored by the Greater Madison County Federation of Labor. All affiliated and non-affiliated union members from St. Louis, the Metro East and surrounding areas are invited to participate. This year’s fee of $400 per team is due before the captains’ meeting to be held at 6 p.m. on Aug. 13 at the Machinists Center, 161 N. Shamrock St., East Alton, Ill. 62024.

All participating teams are asked to have someone at the meeting for tournament rules and selection of brackets. The winning team will be awarded the privilege of selecting the recipient of the prize money – traditionally awarded to legitimate and worthy community organizations and causes – and will receive the traveling trophy to display in their union hall. For more information, call B. Dean Webb at 618-259-8558 or 618-604-0858.

Aug. 21 – Suicide Postvention in the Construction Industry Seminar, sponsored by Aetna and co-produced by the Missouri Works Initiative

and the Construction Forum, will be held from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562 Training Center, 3755 Corporate Trail Drive in Earth City. The free seminar, open to all union members and representatives, includes a complimentary breakfast. To register, visit constructforstl.org/ upcoming-events/mental-healthin-the-public-labor-industry/.

Aug. 21 – Missouri Women in Trades (MOWIT) Meetup for tradeswomen and women interested in joining the building trades, 4 to 6 p.m. at the AGC Training Center, 6301 Knox Industrial Ave. in St. Louis. RSVPs are required and food will be provided. Register at mowit.org or call 636-926-6948.

Aug. 21 – St. Louis Faith Labor Alliance Breakfast, hosted by Missouri Jobs with Justice (MOJWJ), will be held at the Painters District Council 58 union hall at 2501 59th St. in St. Louis from 7:30 to 9 a.m. For more information, contact The Rev. Teresa Danieley, of MOJWJ, at teresa@ mojwj.org or call her at 314-5037415. To register, visit mojwj.

org/action/join-a-st-louis-faithlabor-alliance-breakfast.

Aug. 23 – Alton/Wood River Union Family Parade and Picnic, sponsored by the Greater Madison County Federation of Labor. Parade assembly begins at 8 a.m. at the Emerick Sports Complex parking lot, and the parade will step off at 10 a.m., running south on Sixth Street, west on Ferguson and ending at N. Haller Street. The picnic will be held at Gordon Moore Park in Alton following the parade. For more information, call B. Dean Webb at 618259-8558 or Mike Fultz at 618-409-4314.

Aug. 24 – St. Louis Labor Council’s 2025 Labor Parade and Festival. The parade will start at 9 a.m., beginning at the Eagan Center at 1 James J. Eagan Drive, Florissant, Mo. and ending at the Knights of Columbus Park, where the 2025 Labor Festival will be held. Many events are planned for both young and old!

Aug. 26 – United Way Annual Night at the Ballpark begins at 6:45 p.m. at Busch Stadium, 700 Clark Ave. in St. Louis between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburg Pirates. A $23 ticket includes a jumbo hot dog and soda, and a portion of each ticket will benefit the United Way of Greater St. Louis Community Campaign. To buy tickets, visit mlb.com/cardinals/ tickets/specials/united-way.

SEPTEMBER Sept. 1 – 45th AnnualTri-City Labor Day Parade will step off at 10 a.m. in downtown Granite City for a one-mile march to Wilson Park for the union family and friends picnic. Participants will enjoy music, speeches, food, refreshments and kids activities. Madison County Transit will provide free shuttle service starting at 8 a.m. at the park and run every 15 minutes to the start of the parade route. After the parade and picnic, the transit service will take riders back downtown as needed. For more information, contact B. Dean Webb at 618-259-8558 or Eric Borg at 618-600-2094.

Sept. 1 – Southwestern Illinois Central Labor Council Parade in downtown Belleville will step off at 10 a.m. in the fourth block of South 1st Street and end at Hough Park with the annual picnic. Lineup will begin at 8 a.m.

The parade and picnic are open to union members and their families.

An assortment of food, beverages, rides and games for kids will be available at the picnic. No animals of any kind are allowed at the parade or picnic. For more information, contact Southwestern Illinois Central Labor Council President Scot Luchtefeld at 618-340-8300.

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AFL-CIO bus tour From page 1 coverage because of her freakin’ in-action. She knew that children in need are going to go without because of the cuts to SNAP. Please explain to me. I’d love to ask her, but she’s sleeping again like she does in Congress, facedown, unconscious, voiceless for the people.”

‘EFFECTS ARE LOUD AND CLEAR’ St. Louis Labor Council President Pat Kellett (Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562) outlined the impact of the big, ugly bill.

“Two-hundredten-thousand Missourians will lose their health insurance in the Medicaid cuts. That’s a lot of people, and it’s KELLETT just the beginning,” Kellett said.

“One-hundred-sixty-thousand people, especially children, will be affected by the SNAP cuts. That’s nutrition, it’s school programs. It’s absolutely disgusting.

“Nearly 5,000 jobs will be eliminated as a result of the cuts to the clean energy tax credits. And who knows how many other state programs will be cut due now to the strain on our state’s budget?

“The effects are loud and clear.”

UFCW Local 655’s union hall is located right around the corner from Wagner’s Ballwin office and union members used the occasion to sign an oversized letter to Wagner as the rally ended and marched it to her office. Wagner, it should be noted, wasn’t there.

One man in an adjacent office said she never is.

‘ALL OUT WAR’ Diana Hicks, national vice president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) District 9, called out Trump’s attacks on the federal workforce which has borne the brunt of his anti-union efforts with layoffs, forced resignations and attempts to bust federal employee unions.

“It’s been six months and five days since No. 47 took office, and in that time his administration has launched an all out HICKS war on our federal workforce and Labor itself,” Hicks said. “They’ve used forced resignations, created hostile work environments and every trick in the book to try to break us. Their goal: to eliminate the critical role government workers play in defending this country and serving the American people.”

Hicks said the big, beautiful bill is a direct attack on federal workers’ rights, pay and benefits.

“Thanks to our collective fight, many of those destructive proposals were stopped under the Byrd Rule (a Senate rule that restricts the inclusion of non-budgetary provisions in reconciliation bills, named after former Senator Robert C. Byrd), because law cannot be rewritten through budget cuts alone,” Hicks said. “But this victory is only temporary. They will come

SENDING A MESSAGE to U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) union members and their families signed a letter to the congresswoman calling out her failure to stand up for Missouri’s working families in her support for the so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill.” Rally goers then marched to Wagner’s office to deliver the letter in person.

Wagner, it should be noted, wasn’t there.

– Labor Tribune photo

back. They’ve come back before with new schemes, new lies and a new attempt to crush us. Let me tell you, they will not succeed. We will not be broken. We are AFGE. And we fight harder than they can ever imagine,” Hicks said.

One of the keys to winning that fight, Hicks said, will be electing worker-friendly candidates.

“We’re not just fighting for today; we’re fighting for the future of every worker who dares to stand up and demand respect. But we must act now. We need to flip these seats in Congress and our state legislatures, places where we can elect leaders who will stand with us, fight for us, and protect the real American dream – our freedoms, safe workplaces, fair wages and the security to support a family.”

SOLIDARITY Local 655’s incoming president Laura Kelley called for solidarity,

invoking the Labor truism “An injury to one is an injury to all.”

“Whenever they come after AFGE, they’re coming after UFCW. If they come after the UAW, they are coming after the Teamsters,” KELLEY Kelley said.

“That is what this political nightmare of a political party needs to understand about St. Louis Labor.

We are one,” she said. “If you’re going to come after my other union family, you’re coming after me….

At the end of the day, they’re not going to stop with AFGE, they’re not going to stop with UFCW. They want to terminate your voice, the most important thing you have in your workplace. They want to terminate it by making sure that they’ve dismantled the NLRB and that the DOL is in their back pocket, and before you know it, we’re going

to have rules and regulations that don’t even look normal to the basic American human being.

“We find ourselves at a crossroads today, not just in policy but in trust,” Kelley said. “Trust of our local leaders, trust of our international leaders that they are doing the right thing for all the people.

I have to tell you, Rep. Wagner, someone elected to represent the interests of the people, has made a choice that speaks volumes not in our favor. By voting in support of that so-called big, ugly bill, she turned her back on the very people who put her into office... We are going to have tens of hundreds of thousands of people affected by this.

“This bill is wrapped in glossy language and empty promises. It does nothing for the working families that we represent, the struggling communities that we’re all a part of, or our long-term future as Labor. Instead, if favors the special interests, outsized corporations and those already seated at the table with too much influence and unchecked power.”

CULMINATION OF GOP ATTACKS Missouri State Senator Doug Beck (D-Affton), a 29-year member of Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562 and president of the Missouri State Building and Construction Trades Council, said what’s going on in Washington and Missouri is the culmination of years of Republican attacks on Labor and working families.

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AFL-CIO bus tour From page 7 That includes this year’s action in Missouri where the Republicancontrolled House and Senate passed, and Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe signed, a repeal of Proposition A, an initiative which 58 percent of voters approved, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and giving earned paid sick time to Missouri workers. Republican’s HB 567 repealed the earned paid sick leave portion of the petition

and eliminated the provision tying future minimum wage increases to the Consumer Price Index.

“I am a person that believes that a rising tide lifts all boats,” Beck said.

“And what we’ve got going on in this state and across this country is opposite of that.

BECK “I’ve seen this in

the state. And I’ve seen this since 2016 when I was first elected, and we were fighting so-called “rightto-work” (RTW). We fought RTW, we fought paycheck deception, we fought lowering prevailing wage.

And guess what, not one Democrat introduced any of those bills. Those were all Republican-introduced bills – RTW, paycheck deception, getting rid of prevailing wage, lowering unemployment. That’s

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LAURA KELLEY, incoming president of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 655, makes a point at the AFL-CIO’s “It’s Better in a Union” bus tour rally July 25 at Local 655’s union hall in Ballwin: “Whenever you come after my other union family, you’re coming after me.”

what they’ve been doing up there (in Jefferson City). They’re constantly attacking workers. And the culmination of that was this year.

“These same people that tell me on a daily basis they’re working for working people, this is all lip service,” Beck said. “When this president, who ran his election on saying he’s going to help working people – everything he’s done has hurt working people.

“And it’s a shame and Ann Wagner is just as much a part of it as everyone else,” he said. “That’s what they do. Whatever the president says they do.”

‘FREEDOM OF WORKERS TO ORGANIZE’ Robbie Robertson, secretarytreasurer of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) St. Louis Gateway District Local 8 and recently elected secretary-treasurer of the St. Louis Labor Council, reiterated the call for solidarity in the face of Republicans’ withering attacks.

“We are here today to stand in agreement to fight for the freedom to fight for fairness and to fight for

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First Wednesday, 10 a.m., Electricians’ Industry Training Center Auditorium, 2300 Hampton.

St. Louis Union Label & Service Trades Council

Meetings third Monday at 5 p.m., IBEW Local 1, 5850 Elizabeth Ave., 63110. John Schepers, president. Information: fritz@ unionlabel.info 314-779-9959

LOCAL UNIONS Boilermakers Local 27

The monthly membership meetings are at 8 p.m. the first Monday at the Boilermakers Hall, 1547 S. Broadway.

Applications for Construction Boilermakers Apprentice will be accepted by the Boilermakers Joint Apprenticeship Committee on the second Monday of each month at the Local 27 hall, 1547 South Broadway, St. Louis, Missouri 63104, from 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

The recruitment, selection, employment and training of apprentices during their apprenticeship shall be without discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, age or sex. Every applicant must supply a copy of their BIRTH CERTIFICATE and High School DIPLOMA/G.E.D. that the Committee can keep at the time of filing application for apprenticeship.

WELDING QUALIFICATION: Applicants that have a welding certification or welding training qualifications will have priority selection over applicants with no welding qualifications. Applicants must provide a copy and proof of welding certification or welding training qualifications at the time of application.

Bricklayers Local 1

IBEW Local 4

5850 Elizabeth Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110

Insulators and Asbestos Workers Local 1

First Friday, 7 p.m. at the Hoisting Engineers Hall, 3449 Hollenberg.

Executive Board meets at 3325 Hollenberg on first Friday at 10 a.m.

Ironworkers Local 396

Union meetings on the last Friday of each month at 8 p.m. at the Union Hall, 2500 59th St., St. Louis, MO 63110.

Laborers Local 110

4532 S Lindbergh Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63127. Meetings are the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m.

Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 562

Second Wednesday of each month, 5 p.m. at Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 562 Training Center, 3755 Corporate Trail Dr., Earth City, MO 63045.

Roofers Local 2

The regular meetings of Roofers’ Local 2 are held on the first Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m. in the Roofers’ Hall, 45 Worthington Access Drive, Maryland Heights, MO 63043.

The Executive Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday before the regular monthly meeting.

Sprinkler Fitters and Apprentices Local 268

Regular meetings at 5 p.m. second Thursday of month at the Union Hall, 1544 S. Third St., St. Louis, MO 63104.

St. Louis Theatrical Brotherhood Local 6 I.A.T.S.E.

Regular monthly meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month at 5:30 p.m. at 1611 S. Broadway.

Meets at 5:30 p.m. the first Thursday at Bricklayers’ Local No. 1 Union Hall, 1670 Fenpark, Fenton, MO 63026.

To register for a course, contact Dale Jennewein at the Bricklayers Local 1 MO JATC at 314-770-1066.

Teamsters Joint Council 13

Cement Masons Local 527

Tile-Marble Setters & Finishers, Mosaic & Terrazzo Workers & Finishers Local 18 MO

3341 Hollenberg Dr, Bridgeton, MO 63044

Teamsters Local 688

4349 Woodson Rd, St. Louis, MO 63134

Elevator Constructors Local 3

Meets at 5:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at ADC Union Hall, 1670 Fenpark, Fenton, MO 63026.

Glaziers Local 513

United Media Guild Local 36047

5916 Wilson Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110 5916 Wilson Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110

IBEW Local 1

Union meetings are held the First Wednesday and the Third Friday of each Month at the IBEW, Local 1 Union Hall located at 5850 Elizabeth Avenue, Saint Louis, MO 63110. Meetings begin promptly at 5 p.m. Please make every effort to attend.

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security for our u n i o n b ro t h e r s and sisters,” she said. “The purpose of this solidarity event today is to ensure better working conditions, higher ROBERTSON wages and stronger protections through the collective bargaining unit and organizing.

“The unions are here to fight for the freedom of the workers to organize and to join together while amplifying their voice and advocating for our people. Our union our strength.

“We are here to advocate for safe workspaces, comprehensive benefits and job security for working people – a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work.”

Or, as Local 8 President Bill Brady put it after calling out Trump’s efforts to privatize the U.S. Postal Service, eliminating BRADY some 600,000 union jobs, “You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.”

IBEW Local 1 Apprentices

Meeting on the first and third Friday of each month, 7 p.m. at the Training Center, 2300 Hampton.

Executive board meetings are held at 6:30 p.m. on the second Thursday at the TNG-CWA Local 36047 office, Room 1040 at 1015 Locust St., St. Louis.

Utility Workers Local 335

74 Woodstream, Moscow Mills, MO 63362

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Home Builders Association donates $20K to Rebuilding Together Saint Louis ST. LOUIS – The Home Builders Association (HBA), on behalf of the Home Builders Charitable Foundation (HBCF), recently presented a $20,000 donation to Rebuilding Together Saint Louis Executive Director Elaine Powers and Board Member Ken Van Bree of RubinBrown LLP. The donation will be used toward Rebuilding Together Saint Louis’ Rebuilding Day Program.

Rebuilding Together revitalizes neighborhoods in partnership with the community by rehabilitating the houses of low-income homeowners, particularly the elderly and the disabled, so that they may continue to live independently in comfort and safety.

Rebuilding Day is the organization’s annual one-day blitz where volunteers from several unions and other community volunteers make home repairs and a lasting impact on homeowners in the St. Louis Metro area.

The HBA is a local trade association of nearly 600 member firms representing the residential construction industry.The Home Builders Charitable Foundation, the HBA’s charitable arm, is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing housing assistance to people or organizations with special shelter needs.

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Tommy Orzechowski Secretary Treasurer George Tricker VP Contracts Bryan Powell VP Lakes & Inland Waters

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International Association of

Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers Local Union No. 1

GARY PAYEUR, Business Manager GERALD McATEE, Business Agent/ Financial Secretary

Assistant Directing Business Representative

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Ironworkers District Council of St. Louis and Vicinity AFL-CIO

ROOFERS LOCAL NO. 2

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45 Worthington Access Dr. Maryland Heights, MO 63043

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JOSE R. GOMEZ Business Manager

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ELECTRICAL WORKERS LOCAL No. 1 — AFL-CIO 5850 Elizabeth Ave.

647-5900

President

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Secretary-Treasurer

FRANK D. JACOBS

David Rodriguez, Dave Reinecke

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PLUMBERS AND PIPEFITTERS 562 3640 Corporate Trail Dr. Earth City, MO 63045

JOHN O’MARA Business Manager/ Secretary-Treasurer

BILLY DOHERTY JR. Assistant Business Manager

Jason Hettel, President Scott Touchette, Vice-President/Bus. Rep. Eric Sitze, Recording Secretary Thomas King, Chairman Executive Board Michael Ecker, Trustee Robert Wunderlich, Trustee

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1547 S. Broadway (314) 421-3151 St. Louis, Missouri 63104

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12365 ST. CHARLES ROCK RD. BRIDGETON, MO. 63044

JASON TETIDRICK

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Business Manager

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INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGE, STRUCTURAL, ORNAMENTAL AND REINFORCING IRON WORKERS LOCAL No. 396 314/647-3008

2500 59th St., St. Louis, Mo. 63110

MICHAEL T. HEIBECK, Bus. Mgr./Finan. Sec’y.-Treas.

PHIL DECKER, Pres./Bus. Agent BOBBY HEIBECK, Vice President MARTY WEIR, Recording Secretary JEREMIAH BATES, Business Agent TRAVIS BARNES, Business Agent MARK CROWE, Business Agent

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IBEW 309 hosts Gateway Grizzlies Night at the Ballpark for members Sauget, IL – IBEW Local 309 hosted a Night at the Ballpark for its members at GCS Ballpark at 2301 Grizzlie Bear Blvd. as the Gateway Grizzlies took on the Schaumburg Boomers. The event, held on July 18, included food, fellowship and fun.

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Union and worker-friendly golf tournaments Area unions and union-friendly organizations are hosting the following fundraising and charity golf tournaments. To have your tournament listed, contact Editor-in-Chief Tim Rowden a tim@labortribune.com, or mail your information to Labor Tribune, 301 S. Ewing Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 63103.

Aug. 2 – 28th Annual United Way Charity Golf Tournament, hosted by CWA Local 6300 and AT&T Business Services, will be held at Norman K. Probstein Golf Course at Forest Park. Entry fee of $100 per player includes green fees, cart, refreshments and lunch. Field is limited to 144 golfers. Registration begins at 6:30 a.m. with a 7:30 a.m. shotgun start. Prizes will be awarded for longest drive and closest to the pin. An optional skins game will also be available. Proceeds will benefit the United Way. Make checks payable to Mark Reinghausen and mail with entry form to 32 Lemhi Pass Court, O’Fallon, Mo.

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63368. For more information, contact Mark Reinghausen at 314-603-2467 or email mr3212@att.com, or Mike Brennecke at 314-239-5546 or email mb1836@att.com.

Aug. 23 – Glaziers Local 513 Charity Fund Golf Tournament to benefit St. Crisis Nursery will tee-off with an 8 a.m. four-person scramble shotgun start at Florissant Golf Club, 50 Country Club Lane, Florissant, Mo. 63033.

Entry fee of $450 per team includes lunch, cart, green fees, beer, soda and water. Lunch-only tickets are $25. Skins can be purchased for $20 per team. There will also be raffles and a 50/50 drawing as well as prizes awarded for closest to the pin for both men and women and prizes for A, B and C flight winners. Hole sponsorships are $150. Beverage cart sponsorships are $350. Lunch spon-

Sept. 11 – Laborers Local 42 Veterans Committee Top GolfTournament to support veterans’ groups will take place between 12 and 3 p.m. at Top Golf, 16851 N. Outer 40 Road, Chesterfield, Mo. 63005. Support levels range from $300 to $4,000. Donations support Local 42 Veterans Committee, The Kaufman Fund, Focus Marines, Memorial Gardens, Wounded Warrior Project and others. All donations are tax deductible based on the fair market value of attendance. Registration deadline is Aug. 15. Make checks payable and mail to: Local 42, Attn.

Veterans Committee Top Golf Event, 301 S. Ewing, St. Louis, Mo. 63103. For more information, call 314-531-1187.

Sept. 13 – Machinists Lodge 41 Charity Golf Tournament supporting IAM Veterans Service Program will begin with a four-person scramble shotgun start at 10 a.m. at Lockhaven Golf Club, 10872 Lawrence Keller Dr., Godfrey, Ill. 62035. Check-in begins at 8:30 a.m. Entry fee is $450 per team and includes lunch, dinner and beer provided, and a $10,000 hole-in-one

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naugh. Their remarkable 65-year marriage was built on loyalty, love and faith, forming the foundation of a family that meant everything to him.

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contest. Hole sponsorships are available for $100 on the box or $150 on the box and green. Make checks payable to IAMAW Veterans L 41 and mail to Mark Grzechowiak, treasurer, 12365 St. Charles Rock Road, Bridgeton, Mo. 63044. The deadline to enter is Sept.

6. For more information, contact Mark Grzechowiak at 636-293-8213 or email iamprogressivelodge41@ gmail.com.

Sept. 13 – IBEW Local 1439’s 29th Annual Tom Kraus Memorial Golf Tournament begins with a 1:30 p.m. shotgun start, four-person scramble at Forest Park Golf Course, 5595 Grand Drive in St. Louis. The entry fee is $125 per individual or $500 for a four-person team and includes the cart, green fees, donuts, juice, coffee and lunch.

Skins and mulligans will be available. Prizes awarded for closest to the hole and first and second place in A, B and C flights. Sponsorships range from $100 to $5,000. Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the Super Sam Foundation – Fighting Childhood Cancer. Make checks payable to IBEW Local 1439 and mail with entry form to IBEW Local 1439, 2121 59th St., St. Louis, Mo. 63110. For more information, call 314-644-6111.

Sept. 18 – Missouri AFL-CIO Golf Tournament will begin with a 9 a.m.

registration and 10 a.m. tee-off at Oak Hills Golf Center in Jefferson City, Mo. Entry fee for a Silver Sponsorship is $600 and includes golf for four with a cart, a chance to win closest to the pin and longest drive, as well as attendance prizes, food and beverages. Other sponsorships range from $300 to $2,500.

All proceeds go toward member education. Deadline for entries is Sept. 1. Make checks payable to Missouri AFL-CIO and mail to Attn: Jake Hummel, 131 E. High Street, Suite 100, Jefferson City, Mo. 65101. For more information call Matt Troesser at 573-634-2115.

Sept. 19 – Monroe County Democratic Party’s Golf Classic will begin with a 6:30 a.m. registration and 7:30 a.m. four-person scramble shotgun start at Acorns Golf Course in Waterloo, Ill. Entry fee is $85 per golfer or $340 per team. Hole sponsorships are $150 and event sponsorships are $400. Prizes awarded for attendance, longest drive and closest to the pin. Event limited to the first 36 teams to pay. Make checks payable to Monroe County Democratic Central Committee and mail to Central Committee, P.O. Box 294, Columbia, Ill. 62236. For more information, call See AFL-CIO BUS TOUR page 11 618-616-4590 or 618-550-9623.

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Admiral From page 1 have already put in countless hours in this restoration project,” said Local 36 Business Manager Ray Reasons. “The years of dedicated service and skill sets they possess will be key in the restoration of this highly complicated project.

Our retirees always amaze me with their willingness to give back to our organization and worthy causes.”

The 20-foot scaled replica from 1980 was the brainchild of the late Wayne Lavanchy, a Local 36 instructor, said Hoganson, a retiree and former Local 36 marketing director. His original idea was to build a Regatta race boat that could run on the Meramec River.

After winning the Meramec Regatta race, the replica was repurposed as a Labor Day Parade float, and it later

turned into a replica of the Admiral.

“It was a project he wanted to do with the apprentices, and they could learn layout and welding skills, and it would also be a good promotional thing for the union and the training school,” said Hoganson. “It was a two-year project with him and the apprentices.”

HISTORY Around 1990, Local 36 sold the

THE ADMIRAL, built in 1907, was an excursion steamboat that operated on the Mississippi River in St. Louis from 1940 to 1978. The ship, shown here in 2006, was briefly re-purposed as an amusement center in 1987 and converted to a gambling venue called President Casino in the 1990s.

It was eventually dismantled for scrap in 2011.

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replica to the owners of the Admiral.

“They took ownership of it, and at that point we lost all contact with the boat,” Hoganson said.

“Then the admiral itself changed hands several times. When I heard that the admiral was going to be scrapped in 2011, I wondered where our boat was and whether it was still in existence.”

Hoganson did several internet searches over the years and eventually found out that it was in a St. Louis-area museum called Antique Warehouse – the collection could only be viewed online. After the museum’s owner passed away, Hoganson asked if Local 36 could have the replica back.

“I thought we would restore it to museum quality, and then we would find a use for it to promote the union and our trade,” he said. “This thing was beat like a demolition derby.

I thought ‘How are we going to restore this?’ The apprentices can’t do it, but the retirees might be

able to do it because they had they knowledge and the actual feelings associated with the Admiral.”

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION Hoganson said there are about 20 retirees working on the project.

They started working on the restoration in March, and the goal is to have it complete by March 2026.

He said the National Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, Mo. has agreed to put it in their display as part of the 100th anniversary of Route 66.

“The admiral was a featured attraction when you travelled Route 66,” Hoganson said. “I’m really proud of the work our members are doing. We’ll have hundreds of hours wrapped up in the project when it is complete in March.”

Stay up-to-date on the project’s progress by following Sheet Metal Workers Local 36’s Facebook page at facebook.com/sheetmetal36.