Missouri "Right-to-Work" Laws Target Public Workers

CWA Local 6355 members who work in the Department of Social Services head to the state capitol to meet with Rep. Allen Curtis (D) about his "right-to-work" bill for the construction industry. Left to right: Natashia Pickens, local vice president and chair of the St Louis Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Next Generation Committee; Bradley Harmon, local president; Marcia Gant, union steward from Curtis' district.

CWA members on the Parkway Schools Negotiating Team call their state representatives about "right-to-work" and "paycheck deception." Steward James Thomas, Parkway Representative Lawrence Sykes and Steward Berlinda Jackson told their state representatives that they did not understand why anyone in the legislature would try to interfere with their right to organize and negotiate with their employers.

Angie Postal canvasses Sen. Paul Wieland's (R) district in Jefferson County. Postal and other activists asked Wieland's neighbors to call on him to focus on important issues, like expanding access to health care for low-income workers through Medicaid, not divisive attacks on workers like "right-to-work" and "paycheck deception."