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Some 83,000 Minnesotans – many of them women and heads of households – make $7.25 an hour or less, according to the 2013 Minnesota Minimum-Wage Report released Thursday by the state Department of Labor and Industry.
All the investments Minnesota is making in education and other tactics to remain economically competitive could be wasted if the state does not also invest in a complete transportation system, members of a new coalition said Thursday.
As corporate and government leaders gather in Davos, Switzerland, this week for the annual World Economic Forum, a new poll shows that workers around the globe are struggling to survive on low wages.
Rahnee Patrick is in a wheelchair. Suffering from several serious maladies since age 8, the director of Access To Independent Living, a Chicago non-profit, she needs caregiver Moira Johnson to help her bathe, dress and go to work.
After 41 years of distinguished union service, Jim Brady is retiring as president of the Laborers District Council at the end of this month. Todd Pufahl, the LDC’s current Legislative Director, will step into the job, leading the District’s 12,000 members.
U.S. Supreme Court justices are examining the issue of when the president may fill vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board and elsewhere in the government, so that government can function.
Unions are gearing up for yet another fight over so-called “fast track,” also known as trade promotion authority, which would let President Barack Obama jam through trade treaties with European and Asian nations without worker rights or protections for citizens and consumers.
Governor Mark Dayton’s plan to invest $986 million in infrastructure projects will create jobs and provide a critical boost to the state’s economy, the Minnesota AFL-CIO said.
The teachers of the Twin Cities German Immersion School, a charter school in St. Paul, have voted to join Education Minnesota, the statewide union of 70,000 educators, the union announced Wednesday.
Friday, Jan. 17, is the deadline to register for “Introduction to the Labor Movement,” an online course offered by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service.
