Autoworkers at the Lear Corp. seating assembly plant in Wentzville ended their strike Thursday, days after they walked off the job over health and safety concerns as well as pay demands.
UAW Local 282 President Bill Hugebeck said the union reached a tentative deal with Lear and workers returned to the assembly line Thursday morning.
Hugebeck said the terms of the deal would be released at a later time.
Lear is responsible for making seats for several cars, including for the General Motors plant…
The St. Louis-based Catholic and nonprofit health system has agreed to sell nine of its Illinois hospitals to a for-profit health system based in California.
The Queen Casino & Entertainment, owner of the Casino Queen in East St. Louis, is to combine with Bally's Corp. as part of a deal that will see Standard General LP buy Bally's outstanding shares.
Southwest Airlines, the largest carrier at St. Louis Lambert International Airport, said Thursday it would abandon its longstanding open-seating policy, and instead assign seats, offer premium seating and redesign its boarding model.
A former U.S. Defense Department contractor on Tuesday got five years of probation and a $50,000 fine for illegally obtaining parts for the military overseas.
Voters in November could decide to restructure St. Louis County's government to include a non-partisan county manager in charge of day-to-day operations.
Councilman Mark Harder, a Republican, introduced legislation at Tuesday's council meeting that would put the charter change proposal on the ballot.
Harder said he's doing this because there have been too many problems with the way the county government is run.
"We can't seem to do some of the basic functions of government. By having a person…
A St. Louis-based provider of commercial and residential disaster-recovery and restoration services has been acquired by a Kansas City-based specialty contractor.
Major League Soccer franchise St. Louis City SC has sought to purchase a state-owned office building near its Downtown West complex to expand its training facilities, according to state documents.
St. Louis Comptroller Darlene Green said Wednesday she opposes substantial proposed changes to the city's governing document, while the government's top budget official said they were lacking or had not undergone proper due diligence.
A couple's $1.2 million Kirkwood dream home has been made uninhabitable by a deadly dust. While they struggle to find a solution via the legal system, governments have also indicated that exposure to the substance isn't regulated in residential settings.
“The S&P 500 has been led higher by the stellar gains from mega-cap technology stocks exposed to artificial intelligence. The St. Louis Index is underweight technology companies," Ward Brown, director of portfolio engagement at Clayton-based Argent Capital Management, wrote.
General Motors idled production Monday at its Wentzville Assembly Plant due to a strike at a seat maker Lear Corp. Now the automaker has reportedly told the supplier it's in breach of its contract, and the union has filed a federal complaint against Lear.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is investigating the Atlanta-based carrier, which was hit especially hard by the CrowdStrike-induced Microsoft outage.
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