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The Minnesota Orchestra has locked out musicians for refusing to accept pay cuts of up to 50 percent. The musicians, represented by the Twin Cities Musicians Union, wonder why the Orchestra is spending millions on a new building yet undercutting the quality of future performances.
More than 450,000 new voters from union households may be going to the polls Nov. 6 thanks to an ongoing voter registration drive by the union movement, the AFL-CIO announced.
Oct. 25 marks the 10th anniversary of the plane crash that killed U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, daughter Marcia and three campaign aides, Mary McEvoy, Tom Lapic, and Will McLaughlin.
Four groups of Wal-Mart workers, fed up with bad working conditions, company high-handedness and refusal to listen and its low pay, defied the giant retailer and staged separate strikes in mid-September and early October.
Workers at the Co-op Partners Warehouse (Wedge Co-op) have ratified a three-year agreement which included $1.50 wage increase over the life of the agreement and paid holidays, their union announced.
The Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra issued a statement to “express our deepest regret to our loyal audience members” that management has cancelled all concerts through Nov. 25. The Orchestra has locked out the musicians after failing to reach a contract agreement over the weekend.
Citing the threat to the players’ health and safety – a threat which violates their own contract with the league – the NFL Players Association formally asked league owners to end the NFL’s lockout of the regular referees. Incompetent “replacements” are running – and ruining – games, NFLPA said.
Check out the Workday coverage of the recent Minnesota AFL-CIO convention:
Union members roll up their sleeves to defend worker rights
Young workers showing new ways to lead
Governor says it’s time to go on the offense
Opposition to amendments takes center stage
Co-president of newly merged entertainment union brings message of unity
Members of the Building Trades, along with investors and city officials, broke ground for a new rental housing development in the North Loop neighborhood of Minneapolis that is funded through union pensions.
Delegates representing 25,500 Chicago teachers and 4,000 paraprofessionals ratified a tentative 3-year contract, ending a nine-day strike forced upon the Chicago Teachers Union, AFT Local 1, by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
