Workday Magazine (https://workdayminnesota.flywheelsites.com/author/tsuperadmin/page/111/)
With several major projects underway, Building Trades unions in Minnesota are riding a wave of momentum. They will be backing candidates this fall who will continue that job growth.
A master’s degree program which offers a union leadership track is moving from the University of Minnesota Duluth to Metropolitan State University in St. Paul.
Thousands of Minnesotans will get a raise Friday when the state’s new minimum wage takes effect. Pay will increase to $8 an hour, rising to $9.50 an hour by 2016.
Thousands of postal workers gathered outside a Staples store in downtown Chicago to turn up the heat in the “Don’t Buy Staples” campaign, chanting “The U.S. mail is not for sale!” and “The security of the mail must prevail!”
St. Paul Federation of Teachers President Mary Cathryn Ricker has been elected to the national leadership team of the American Federation of Teachers.
After voting 136-84 against union representation, St. Thomas adjunct faculty will not be represented by the Service Employees International Union.
The Twin Cities Labor Chorus will host its annual summer concert and sing-along, “Labor Sing,” at the State Fairgrounds July 29.
On the heels of a successful campaign to form an adjunct faculty union at Hamline University, adjuncts at St. Thomas are voting whether they would also like a union.
The Laborers International Union has identified a second possible case of child labor being used on Minnesota construction sites and has alerted authorities at both the state and national level.
The nation’s largest teachers union, the 3-million-member National Education Association, will take a tougher, more outspoken line defending teachers and their students against critics, its new president says.
