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Many arguments are being made about whether or not to raise Minnesota’s minimum wage. In a series of videos, Workday Minnesota is examining some of the myths and realities about the minimum wage. This video features Barb Johnson, a small business owner in Winthrop.
Mark your calendar for 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 4. That’s the night for precinct caucuses for Minnesota’s major political parties.
The Saint Paul Federation of Teachers estimates that about 2,000 educators, parents, students and community members rallied outside more than 50 St. Paul schools during a snowstorm Thursday morning.
State lawmakers should heed President Barack Obama’s call for a significant increase in the minimum wage, members of the coalition to raise Minnesota’s wage said.
Three former supervisors of Eurest Services who supervised the cleaning of Target and other stores in the Twin Cities metro area recently served a lawsuit on their company alleging violations of federal and state labor law.
“I look upon myself as a planter of seeds.” – Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger, whose music and activism put him in the forefront of movements for economic and social justice, died Monday at the age of 94.
Minnesota Orchestra musicians weren’t the only union workers impacted by the 15-month lockout imposed by the Minnesota Orchestral Association. Members of Local 13 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees who work at Orchestra Hall were laid off for most of the lockout.
The Minnesota Orchestra and former Music Director Osmo Vänskä won a Grammy Award in the Best Orchestral Performance category, it was announced Sunday evening during the Grammy ceremony in Los Angeles.
World-class symphonic music will return to Orchestra Hall Feb. 7 when the musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra, locked out of their jobs for 15-1/2 months, return to their home stage.
Union membership in the U.S. rose by 162,000 in 2013, to 14.528 million, the Bureau of Labor Statistics calculated, but the union share of the nation’s workers stayed unchanged at 11.3%.
