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Bringing to an end a long and bitter controversy, the Senate on Tuesday filled all five National Labor Relations Board seats with permanent members, ensuring the board can go ahead and govern worker-management relations for 85 million U.S. workers, most of them in the private sector.
River Valley Action will celebrate its 10-year anniversary with a family picnic Aug. 7 in Stillwater.
The Senate will vote this week on all five of President Obama’s nominees – three Democrats and two Republicans – for National Labor Relations Board seats, Senate Labor Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said.
Leaders of the AFL-CIO will ask delegates at its convention, scheduled Sept. 8-11 in Los Angeles, to enact a massive revamp of the labor movement, the federation’s Executive Council learned on July 24.
With a vote expected in the state Senate Wednesday, the Minnesota AFL-CIO and its affiliates are urging union members to call Senators and tell them to back a House measure that raises the wage to $9.50 per hour.
A team of judges made up of union members, educators and labor journalists has awarded seven prices to History Day projects dealing with workplace issues.
Megan Olivia Hall, a grade 7-12 science teacher at Open World Learning Community in the St. Paul district, has been chosen the 2013 Minnesota Teacher of the Year.
After decades of displacement, war and poverty, workers in Colombia face the possibility of a better life – but only if protections included in the year-old Colombia-U.S. free trade agreement are enforced.
More than 120 women, some getting involved in the labor movement for the first time, came together April 24-26 for the Minnesota Union Women\’s Retreat.
May 1 is International Workers Day. Demonstrations are planned in St. Paul and Duluth to celebrate solidarity and call for comprehensive reform of the nation’s immigration polices.
