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The Minnesota House of Representatives tried hard to raise the state’s minimum wage to $9.50 an hour and index it to inflation in the session that ended May 21. They got no help from the conservative Senate, even though it was also controlled by the DFL, and the effort died.
Activists came together for the 2013 Midwest and Southern School for Union Women, Aug. 15-18, at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.
Hundreds of labor, fair trade, environmental and community activists marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive trade deal that could jeopardize American jobs, wages, consumer safety, health care and environmental standards.
Add the Laborers to the list of unions who say the Obama administration’s health care law leaves multi-employer health care plans, and the union workers who depend on them, in the lurch.
The United Food and Commercial Workers announced it is returning to the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation. The union, which represents 1.3 million workers in the retail, meatpacking, food processing and poultry industries, had split from the AFL-CIO in 2005 to help form the Change to Win labor federation.
A delegation of Latino employees converged upon Cretex headquarters in Elk River Tuesday to demand a meeting with the company’s leadership after their union’s request to negotiate non-discrimination language was rejected.
Members of AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; and MAPE, the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, have ratified the 2013-2015 contract with the State of Minnesota, the unions announced.
Union members will be among those participating Saturday in the “We Are Terrance Franklin Solidarity Rally” at the Hennepin County Government Center.
Arturo Sanchez is accustomed to working outside in all kinds of weather, making concrete products at Cretex Companies. He didn’t mind the hard work, he said, because he was earning a decent living and putting money into a pension plan for the day he would retire.
Can you imagine earning 22 cents an hour – and trying to live on it? That’s what Goodwill Industries could pay disabled workers, the workers say in an on-line petition demanding decent wages from the charity.
