STLCC Adjunct Professors Vote In Favor Of Unionizing
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis Community College adjunct faculty now have a voice in their working conditions. Over the weekend, these faculty members voted in favor of joining the Service Employees International Union Local 1. SEIU Local 1 has been working with college and university professors throughout the Midwest on organizing efforts. Over the…
Plan In Place For Students In East St. Louis To Make Up Missed School Days
East St. Louis, IL (KTRS) Classes are back in session today in the East St. Louis School District. This comes after teachers approved a new four-year contract on Friday, ending a 21 day strike. This means students will have to make up those missed days of school. District officials say this will be done by extending…
Murder Count In St. Louis Now Stands At 169
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The murder rate in the city of St. Louis continues to rise. Police say last night a man and a woman were gunned down Sunday night along the 900 block of Hamilton Avenue in the Central West End. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The man is in critical…
East St. Louis students return to school after strike
( KTRS ) More than 6,000 East St. Louis students are returning to school after a one-month teachers’ strike. District officials and union negotiators struck a tentative deal Friday after a 13-hour bargaining session that lasted until 1:30 a.m. The four-year contract was quickly endorsed by a majority of the roughly 400 striking teachers as…
Insurer denies coverage in Freeburg sex abuse lawsuit
FREEBURG, Ill. (AP) – A southwestern Illinois school district that paid $5.6 million to settle four lawsuits alleging sexual abuse of students by a former superintendent says its insurers are denying coverage for a fifth complaint. The Freeburg district in St. Clair County settled complaints by former elementary students who claimed abuse by Robin Hawkins,…
Man to appear in retrial Monday over wife’s fatal stabbing
TROY, Mo. (AP) – A Lincoln County man formerly convicted of murder in his wife’s 2011 stabbing death will be back in court for a retrial Monday. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1l2YlZk ) that Russell Faria will appear in a bench trial in which St. Louis Circuit Judge Steven Ohmer alone will decide…
Caterpillar starts issuing layoff notices in Decatur
DECATUR, Ill. (AP) – Caterpillar Inc. has started laying off Decatur workers. Company spokeswoman Rachel Potts confirmed the employee notifications to The (Decatur) Herald & Review (http://bit.ly/1MAvd7T ), but says the company won’t be releasing the total number by location. In September, the Peoria-based manufacturer announced that it’s planning another round of job cuts that…
Budget impasse hitting hardest in Illinois’ poorest county.
( KTRS ) For many people in Illinois, the five-month budget impasse has meant little. But for residents in the low-income counties in far southern Illinois it’s a far different story. In the area tucked between the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, private industry is scarce. Residents rely on government for everything from health care to…