Mideastern Illinois Labor Council

08/07/2025

07/30/2025

This is the last Labor Day picnic at Fox Ridge.

07/16/2025

Don’t forget Labor Council meeting tomorrow night.
6:00pm at VFW in Mattoon.

07/06/2025

On this day in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act into law, protecting the rights of private sector workers to form unions, bargain collectively, and take collective action. Also known as the Wagner Act, it laid the foundation for modern labor law and created the National Labor Relations Board to enforce these rights.

Now, as these basic rights are under attack, we cannot go back in time ✊. We must fight to protect these hard-won protections that all workers need for decades to come.

07/01/2025

Support good union jobs with each purchase. Find thousands of other union-made products via our directory here: https://labor411.org/listing-region/consumer-products/

06/24/2025

It's hot out there. Work safe, and know the signs of heat illness.

06/15/2025

Mideastern Labor Council will holding a meeting on Wednesday the 18th at 6 o’clock at the Mattoon VFW.

Topics of discussion will be

• Labor Council picnic

Amy Rueff from Illinois
AFL-CIO
• To discuss the disbanding of
Mideastern Illinois Labor Council.

So please attend!!!!!

06/15/2025

05/30/2025

IATSE Local 85 and Local 193 are taking legal action against USA Concerts and Events for allegedly bypassing local stagehands and hiring out-of-state, non-union labor providers for their events.