International Union of Operating Engineers Local 513

09/03/2026

Thanks to all the members who knocked doors and collected signatures. Now let’s win in November! Yes on 6 - MO!!!

09/03/2026

St. Louis Members: Join us on Monday, September 7th from 11AM - 3PM to celebrate Labor Day with your IUOE Local 513 family!

Enjoy Pappy’s BBQ, Kona Ice, Face Painting, Balloon Artists, Bounce Houses, & Fun for the whole family!

THIS EVENT IS FOR LOCAL 513 MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES ONLY.

09/03/2026

Please join us tonight for the September Warren County Labor Club meeting.

09/01/2026

Please join us tonight for the September Tri-County Labor Club meeting.

08/31/2026

Join our Missouri Union family to kick off the 2026 Amendment 6 outreach efforts. Help strengthen our citizen petition rights and keep "right-to-work" OUT of Missouri for good. Click here to learn more and register, we hope to see you there! https://www.mobilize.us/moaflcio/event/1018519/

08/28/2026

Unions stand with the people who keep our economy moving. That’s why Americans overwhelmingly choose unions over big business and corporate CEOs.

This piece was also published on Medium. For decades, Americans were evenly divided in their relative support of labor unions and big business, but that’s no longer the case. Now, Americans are more likely to side with labor than at any time in the past 60 years. For people whose instincts about e...

08/27/2026

Please join us tonight at 7PM for the August Cape Girardeau Outstate Meeting.

08/25/2026

Rich Baumgardner and Lynette O'Brien working for Bates Utility and MSD Project Clear at the sinkhole site in downtown St. Louis. When it needs to get done right and done on time, operators get the call.

08/23/2026

Tripling union membership in the US would shift wealth to the workers who create it, open more access to healthcare, and stimulate the working class economy.

Foreword Imagine union membership tripling in the United States. It may sound radical—if you’ve forgotten history. In fact, more than 1 in 3 private-sector workers belonged to a union in the 1950s. The results? Wages grew in tandem with the economy. The middle class thrived. Black-white wage gap...

08/21/2026

Kelvin Wright working for Fitzgerald Construction, running the Buckhoist at the Mansion House project in Downtown St. Louis, updating and remodeling housing for a new generation of St. Louisans.