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Events planned for four days July 17-20 will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Minneapolis Teamsters strikes of 1934. considered the most significant single labor event in Minnesota history.
Nurses at one of Minnesota’s largest hospitals have a new contract that makes significant improvements in compensation and working conditions, the Minnesota Nurses Association said.
The University of Minnesota Labor Education Service is offering six courses on “nuts & bolts” skills important to working people. The 2014-2015 schedule includes an online class, “Introduction to the Labor Movement.”
The Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, has joined the call for a nationwide boycott of Staples, the office supply retailer, because of its dealings with the U.S. Postal Service.
Joined by the clients they serve, workers who care for people in their homes filed Tuesday to form a union. Organizing under the slogan, “Invisible No More,” they said a union will improve pay, working conditions and the quality of care.
“Labor in the Eyes of Artists” is a free art exhibit at the T.R. Anderson Gallery at the University of Minnesota running through July 18. A special reception, including two film screenings, will be held Thursday, July 10.
A program in St. Paul Monday, July 7, will discuss Frederick Douglass’ renowned 1852 speech, “What Does the Fourth of July Mean to the Negro?”
Partial privatization of Mexico’s state-owned oil company, Pemex, could idle tens of thousands of skilled workers and force them to look to Mexican cities, or northwards to the U.S., for jobs, the leader of Mexico’s main progressive party says.
A new report shows the impacts of privatization – lower wages, no benefits and no protection on the job for workers, and forcing the workers to use public benefits – ripple throughout local economies.
Workers in Minnesota and other states say they will continue organizing, despite Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that imposes some limits on how unions are financed.
