Workday Magazine (https://workdayminnesota.flywheelsites.com/author/tsuperadmin/page/144/)
In yet another Minnesota workplace, an employer has chosen to lock out union workers rather than negotiate a new contract. However, in the case of Snappy Air Distribution Products in Detroit Lakes, the lockout ended after eight days.
Renita Whicker, a security officer in downtown Minneapolis, raised three children while taking chances that all would remain healthy. Her job didn’t provide health benefits or pay enough for her family to afford health insurance.
A top union leader who worked closely with Thomas Perez, President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the nation’s next Secretary of Labor, says Perez can bring labor and progressive firms together, as Perez did in Maryland.
The atmosphere at Sisters’ Camelot, a mobile food shelf and kitchen bus based in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis, has grown increasingly tense as a labor dispute between the newly-formed canvassers’ union and the collective management enters its second week, workers say.
The National Labor Relations Board will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a ruling earlier this year that retroactively stripped the board, starting in 2012, of its power to decide any labor-management cases.
The Standards of Care Act passed the Minnesota House Health and Human Services Policy Committee with amendments.
The National Association of Letter Carriers invites the public to join in a “National Day of Action” Sunday, March 24, to show support for maintaining Saturday mail delivery by the U.S. Postal Service.
The annual Nellie Stone Johnson Scholarship Dinner, which funds student scholarships, takes place March 21 at the Prom Center in Oakdale.
This week, the Minnesota Legislature is taking up bills to extend the right to organize to thousands of low-wage workers who lack that right today.
The AFL-CIO, the labor-backed Alliance for Retired Americans, the Steelworkers and the Auto Workers back new legislation to close Social Security’s future funding gap – which won’t begin for another 20 years – by taxing millionaires and billionaires, sponsors of the legislation say.
