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An amendment adopted by the House Ways and Means Committee stirred up new debate to the already controversial minimum wage bill, giving House Republicans more reasons for opposing it as the bill heads to the House Floor.
The food on your dining table comes at a particularly high price, not in dollars and cents, but in lives.
Delegates to the Education Minnesota Representative Convention have elected Denise Specht as president of the 70,000-member educators union.
MAPE, the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, and AFSCME Council 5 denounced the corporate-backed “United for Jobs” initiative as a misleading and deceptive paid advertising campaign.
Fifty years after Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, women still make less than men. Except in Minnesota. For public employees, there is no pay gap. It didn’t happen by accident.
For women who got pay equity raises, it made a huge difference – then and now.
Despite its achievements, pay equity didn’t accomplish everything supporters expected.
In celebration of labor history month each May, the Untold Stories series presents programs and talks on both local and national labor history topics. This year’s theme is the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Service Employees International Union Local 26 President Javier Morillo has been honored with the Paul D. Wellstone Award for Lifetime Commitment to Organized Labor.
Duluth nurses represented by the Minnesota Nurses Association have voted to ratify a three-year contract with St. Luke\’s Hospital that would raise wages 4.5 percent.
