Tony Pecinovsky
LATEST ARTICLES BY Tony Pecinovsky
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Missouri unions fight right-to-work legislation
April 9, 2013"This is nothing more than a politically motivated attack on workers designed to eliminate your voice."
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Missouri state workers lobby day
March 28, 2013"They want to take away your right to support your union. They don't want us to be here."
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Governor calls unions the voice of American workers
March 26, 2013"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.
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Sequester cuts mean idle planes, poultry plants and VA offices, says AFGE
March 22, 2013Some 250 AFGE members and supporters rallied outside Republican U.S. Senator Roy Blunt's office in St. Louis, March 20, to protest the $85 billion in across-the-board cuts to vital social services and the military, known as...
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Are Missouri Republicans insane?
March 15, 2013Well, when it comes to Medicaid expansion they just might be. I ask because, who in their right mind rejects billions of dollars in federal funding?
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Missouri coalition standing up for immigrant rights
March 8, 2013"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.
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Missouri may become latest Right-to-Work (for less) state
February 28, 2013If Republican lawmakers get their way, Missouri may become the 25th state in the nation to impose a so-called 'Right-to-Work' law.
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Miners arrested again in St. Louis protest
February 15, 2013"There is a war on workers in this country." Instead of "brass knuckles and gun thugs, corporate lawyers" are helping Peabody rob retirees.
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