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The Minnesota Nurses Association and North Memorial Health Care, Park Nicollet Health Services, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics, Fairview health Services, HealthEast Care System, and Allina Health have reached agreement on new three-year-contracts, the MNA and hospitals announced.
On the same day that General Motors was up for the U.S. Secretary of State’s “Award for Corporate Excellence,” a crowd of about 50 activists protested Wednesday at the steps of GM’s world headquarters in Detroit, chanting “down with exploitation, up with mediation!” In Washington, D.C., where the corporate award ceremony had taken place earlier in the day, a small contingent demonstrated outside the U.S. State Department.
The Machinists Union is calling for tighter regulations on aircraft repair stations in response to the Federal Aviation Administration’s announcement that it is seeking to reform the rules governing airline maintenance.
As Congress debates how to prevent the federal budget from going over the “fiscal cliff,” a new report shows nearly 900,000 Minnesotans would be harmed if lawmakers cut Social Security.
More than 175 union members and Bloomington residents crammed into the City Council chambers Monday night, urging the council to quit wasting taxpayer money, quit using stall tactics, and start negotiating a contract with 23 parks workers, who have been waiting since April to have the city recognize their decision to join AFSCME.
The day after Black Friday, America’s shopping showdown filled with door-busting deals, over 1,700 garment factory workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, were frantically trying to find a door out of their factory in order to escape a fire that had engulfed their building.
United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1189 is hosting a fundraiser Monday, Nov. 26, to benefit the locked-out workers at American Crystal Sugar.
United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1189, which represents workers at Rainbow Foods stores in the Twin Cities east metro, has reached a tentative contract agreement with the grocery chain.
For the fifth consecutive year, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers will raise funds for local charities with its annual holiday lights display.
While Hostess Brands is trying to scapegoat the workers and members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers, the real cause of the company\’s collapse can be traced back to its crony capitalism and consistently poor management, the union said.
