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• Day after 'sick out' over COVID concerns, EBR educators take message directly to school leaders Play Video

  January 13, 2022 11:10 PM

  BATON ROUGE - A handful of members of the East Baton Rouge Parish Association of Educators showed up at Thursday's Committee of the Whole meeting to take their demands directly to the district after staying home from work Wednesday to protest classroom COVID protocols. "I feel like our concerns... more »

• John Deere workers go on strike, shuttering operations at 11 U.S. plants

  October 14, 2021 4:36 AM

  A number of John Deere employees are going on strike in a demand for higher wages. According to CNN , nearly 10,000 members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union joined the organized effort against the Illinois-based farm and construction equipment maker early Thursday morning. The average production... more »

• Amazon defeats union effort at Alabama warehouse

  April 9, 2021 12:31 PM

  BESSEMER, Alabama - E-commerce giant, Amazon, has successfully opposed a group of activists who have been working to create the company's first unionized warehouse in the United States. According to CNN , on Friday, April 9, warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, the location where the union would have been... more »

• Neighbors FCU employees donate over 1,500 pounds of food to Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank

  December 3, 2019 8:09 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Neighbors Federal Credit Union employees were able to donate 1,558 pounds of food to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank this holiday season. Led by Team Impact, a group of volunteer employees, NFCU donated enough food to feed families in need 1,298 meals. "Once again,... more »

• Former head of Baton Rouge police union retires amid internal affairs probe

  April 4, 2017 10:40 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The former leader of the Baton Rouge Police Department's union retired last month after being on paid administrative leave since February. 46-year-old Sgt. Chris Stewart closed his two-decade long career with the agency amid an internal affairs investigation over allegations he stalked and harassed his ex-girlfriend.... more »

• Two arrested after scuffle in LSU Student Union bathroom

  March 26, 2017 3:43 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Two men were arrested after an apparent brawl in a bathroom at the LSU Student Union Friday. According to arrest records, an officer was called to the LSU Student Union in reference to criminal damage to property around 7 p.m. The witness told the officer... more »

• Father of slain officer slams police union attack on local leader

  July 22, 2016 7:50 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The father of a Baton Rouge Police officer slain in Sunday's ambush shooting condemned the police union's "attack" on a councilwoman's t-shirt. In a letter to the editor to a local newspaper, Hosea Lyle Jackson, the father of BRPD officer Montrell Jackson, writes that he is... more »

• BRPD say be wary of Police Union scam

  December 15, 2015 5:20 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Police said Tuesday people in Baton Rouge have been receiving scam phone calls from someone claiming to be with the Baton Rouge Police Union. Cpl. L'Jean McKneely said the union does not do any phone solicitations specifically so they don't get confused with scam calls. ... more »