by admin | Apr 19, 2000 | News
The non-union workers handling distribution at the Associated Wholesale Grocers warehouse in Springfield admit they’re not doing the job as well as the union workers they’ve replaced. Elite Logistics says its workers are handling 65 to 70 percent of the...
by admin | Apr 14, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A Springfield teamsters union member is charged with beating a replacement driver for Associated Wholesale Grocers earlier this month. The prosecutor who has charged Scott Archie with assault and armed criminal action says Archie is a former driver for Associated....
by admin | Apr 14, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A member of the Springfield teamsters local says he was hit in the face by a security guard while he was picketing the Associated Wholesale Grocers office in Springfield. Fair Grove resident Tom Evel was released after treatment at a hospital. Springfield police are...
by admin | Apr 13, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A Springfield bar could face state sanctions because of advertising it put on the back of pamphlets passed out by competitors for student government positions at Southwest Missouri State University. The state liquor control department is looking into it. The pamphlets...
by admin | Apr 13, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A former deputy sheriff in Springfield is suing the sheriff, saying he was punished for reporting wrongdoing in the drug unit of the department. The federal suit by Earl Massengale charges Sheriff John Pierpont with violating Massengale’s civil rights. No...
