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Missouri state workers lobby day

March 28, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky

"They want to take away your right to support your union. They don't want us to be here."

Governor calls unions the voice of American workers

March 26, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky

"We live in a time in which more and more capital is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands," Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon told union delegates at the AFL-CIO Labor Legislative Conference.

Missouri coalition standing up for immigrant rights

March 8, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky

"We have to do things that welcome immigrants to our state," Vanessa Crawford, executive director of MIRA, told members and activists from all over Missouri.

Move to expand Medicaid in Missouri

January 17, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky

"We have an opportunity to expand Medicaid here in Missouri. We have an opportunity to give security to over 250,000 people who currently do not have health care."

Missourians: Real deficit is the jobs deficit

December 13, 2012 By Tony Pecinovsky

"We cannot cut our way to job creation," the Rev. Roosevelt Broadnax told labor and community allies.