{"id":9489,"date":"2025-06-12T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T21:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=9489"},"modified":"2025-06-12T15:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T21:09:12","slug":"5-for-the-fight-helps-tornado-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/5-for-the-fight-helps-tornado-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"$5 For The Fight Helps Tornado Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The St. Louis Labor Tribune shares this story of how <a href=\"https:\/\/labortribune.com\/5-for-the-fight-fund-helping-union-members-devastated-by-tornado\/\">$5 for the Fight is helping <\/a>those affected by the tornado in St. Louis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Labor Council President Pat Kellett said $48,000 had been donated to the fund as of May 31. But the demand is still great, and donations are still needed to help union members facing dire circumstances.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s the very essentials we\u2019re talking about,\u201d Kellett said. \u201cKim Bartholomew (president of UNITE HERE Local 74) and her local have been reaching out to members. We\u2019re talking about people who need $50 or $100 gift cards for diapers and food. Everyone, every union they talk to it\u2019s the essentials \u2013 diapers, refrigerators to replace the food because it\u2019s all gone bad, people living in hotels because they can\u2019t get live in their home.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Even with the donations that have been collected, Kellett says more help is desperately needed to help union members in need.<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u201cThese are union people we\u2019re talking about, so they\u2019re working, but they\u2019ve lost everything.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/labortribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-for-the-fight-logo-2025-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Labor Tribune shares this story of how $5 for the Fight is helping those affected by the tornado in St. Louis. Labor Council President Pat Kellett said $48,000 had been donated to the fund as of May 31. But the demand is still great, and donations are still needed to help union [&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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489","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=9489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9490,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions\/9490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}