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After two years of study, the Interior Department has proposed linking top sites associated with the late United Farm Workers co-founder and leader Cesar Chavez into a national historical park, the equivalent of a national park.
It probably slipped by you, but Oct. 24 was “Take Back Your Time Day.” That’s an idea that almost all of us would like to embrace. Former Duluthian John de Graff has been working successfully on the idea for well over a decade.
Minnesotans will go to the polls Tuesday in elections to decide mayoral, city council, school district and other local offices. In addition, school levy referendums are scheduled in several communities.
Until recently, even though it was clear a minimum wage increase in Minnesota would improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of low-wage workers, the complete picture of which groups stood to gain more was uncertain.
Mark Lawson was elected president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, in a run-off election whose results were announced Thursday.
The Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO has endorsed school district levy requests in nine Minneapolis area school districts. The referendums will be on the ballot in the Nov. 5 elections.
Volunteer members of St. Paul Pipefitters Local 455 and Minneapolis Pipefitters Local 539 serviced furnaces for the needy during the 28th Annual HEAT’S ON Program. The day of service safeguards low-income, elderly, and disabled homeowners – and reduces their fuel costs.
Who Built Our Capitol?, a documentary about the workers and contractors who built the Minnesota statehouse, premiered at the state Capitol in St. Paul on Oct. 19. The video, a project of the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service, is the culmination of four years of original research and media production.
Starting to put into practice its new goal of speaking for all workers, the AFL-CIO and its Working America affiliate announced that Working America will expand its operations to all 50 states within five years.
Overburdened U.S. diplomats are not pushing the Colombian government to live up to its written commitments on workers’ rights and other rights that Colombia agreed to fulfill to win a so-called “free trade” pact, Colombian and U.S. witnesses told lawmakers on Oct. 24.
