{"id":9145,"date":"2025-03-11T07:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=9145"},"modified":"2025-03-11T07:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:19:09","slug":"the-weekly-missouri-labor-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/the-weekly-missouri-labor-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekly Missouri Labor Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Missouri Labor Update<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>What Union Members need to know!<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Biggest Thing Going:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Labor Women&#8217;s Lobby Day A Success<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Union women flooded the Capitol on Wednesday to speak with their legislators and make their voices heard at the\u00a0<strong>Missouri AFL-CIO\u2019s Ninth Annual Labor Women\u2019s Lobby Day<\/strong>\u00a0in Jefferson City.<\/p>\n<p>Women union members are paid higher wages than their non-union counterparts and enjoy better benefits such as paid leave, health insurance and retirement security. It is vital that we protect these rights and fight any attempts to roll them back. While meeting with legislators the union members discussed issues that are important to their Local and trade, but also focused on broader issues such as:<\/p>\n<p>-Fighting to close the gender pay gap<br \/>\n-Access to Childcare<br \/>\n-Affordable, quality healthcare<br \/>\n-Workplace Safety<br \/>\n-Protecting the Initiative Petition process<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weekly Task<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Trump\/Musk administration is continuing to attack the U.S. Postal service, with the latter telling a group of tech barons that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click.actionnetwork.org\/ss\/c\/u001.XaF8mXqsA6b2dSPmhsleMfp610-QnapMV3bmF0zLbEzNtSf2BhCBVuO8cuL1waPEEaJu-zeudrnHrKc2DM6h442OMvRP62rbpmqIfeXbeEnQAVEyDNFPrvEkEiYnmBl_MSq-PasvcQ1C4RfMwU8_UIdRXIB8AT3bE_1BC8jkgNnMu8nI_bqF0eaoxfvXa3DVefceT1LFS5FewbyuOuDyoUd7tvs1VoO_xlZTquSmcSJpnWnwBoEHDrrivaVceTYJ6mZtEKl0LhfOKfbRH6o9ArPecETYVExq8G965fP9L7U6MrSMIpDLgnAnCff1pVf47S6oxQxplxck4jOGtB8_1mKCe6wH5f-kfLb6Q2LSK_a8MnRKwfgUWI5ZAvektjJQ\/4el\/8AfE_VGwQC-FxdWXs1taqg\/h2\/h001.rP4kUU9b1uwlLj_XUtNYnyCtYNQ5uxT2-muDCtWnDYQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he\u2019d like to privatize\u00a0<\/a>the constitutionally created service. The unionized postal service is one of the nation&#8217;s largest employers of veterans, and is required to deliver \u201cthe last mile\u201d to places for-profit companies like Amazon and Fed Ex won\u2019t deliver. If you can spend a few minutes fighting back this week, call Speaker Johnson and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click.actionnetwork.org\/ss\/c\/u001.XaF8mXqsA6b2dSPmhsleMd3Un2IhUoX62YA-JV5rZdZ1XUyNN8RmxsbmQ_vBXgoP6UKvDe9JkpiMCDL_6JWWxui8tbIE6r6ONmnx2nBnGBZ8srPmQVf5eWBgMVpbvMp2Rqw2NwhcAVKpxBIKtbbpHBwCWusbSw6ExSozViLGvu80xW6StRpiDTwOKJi451kaakrv7tneOubAvk-naN4wfATiKGwFNDCGnlxEXHhjjdDHE7emRmo3UtNDnGAOdLZTl3iJegVLy8nXqbhpkhg-mPuTCWsVNJ32rahIS7EkgAg\/4el\/8AfE_VGwQC-FxdWXs1taqg\/h3\/h001.3-Vop2-9VQ43nTUCpCSs-xnbkhYGKDbSaREsl4b7y8E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">your local member of Congress<\/a>\u00a0to tell them NO to privatization and to protect the postal service!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NY0ZK0iykXU7WsdV_z3p7f1tfH5UYctSRwc3pOL78kSwBTeI-2wD4BZh8cR9WVRJTl2AUB09RIdmEyhRASZb8H4KzA5SFOmtcvAMKdKs88tlJyMjoguB4s822XbzU1fTbtotjMZr30=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/s3_files\/uploads\/data\/000\/981\/977\/original\/Image_4.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Labor Update What Union Members need to know! The Biggest Thing Going: Labor Women&#8217;s Lobby Day A Success Union women flooded the Capitol on Wednesday to speak with their legislators and make their voices heard at the\u00a0Missouri AFL-CIO\u2019s Ninth Annual Labor Women\u2019s Lobby Day\u00a0in Jefferson City. Women union members are paid higher wages than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[202,1108],"class_list":["post-9145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-laws","category-labor-news","tag-equal-pay","tag-womens-lobby-day"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9146,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145\/revisions\/9146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}