Workday Magazine (https://workdayminnesota.flywheelsites.com/author/tsuperadmin/page/158/)
With a massive rally and marches through the streets of Philadelphia on Saturday, the labor movement kicked off its long-term campaign for economic justice. Organizers estimated turnout at approximately 45,000.
After mediated talks with General Motors failed, three more workers have joined a hunger strike in Bogota, Colombia.
The AFL-CIO recently joined with other investors to ask corporations to nominate more women as directors.
This August marks eight years in a row that union members who visit the annual Game Fair in Anoka County will find a booth hosted by the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation and participating unions.
Members of ASOTRECOL, an association of workers and ex-workers injured at the General Motors assembly plant in Bogota, Colombia, launched a hunger strike Wednesday. For the last year, GM has ignored the group’s peaceful protests and occupation of the sidewalk in front of the U.S. embassy.
“Eighty-One Minutes: After the Bridge Collapsed” is a new, permanent exhibit at the Firefighters Hall and Museum focusing on the actions of first responders when the I-35W bridge fell in downtown Minneapolis.
About 70 workers at Park River Estates Care Center in Coon Rapids are the newest members of AFSCME Council 5 after winning a union election in June.
Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando is challenging his union to step up its crusade to save the Postal Service, saying that “if we don’t, no one else will.”
River Valley Action will host a forum entitled “Follow the Money: How big money influences our elections and public policy” Aug. 8, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., in Peter O’Neill Hall at Guardian Angels Church in Oakdale.
More than 8,000 members of the National Association of Letter Carriers are gathered in Minneapolis this week for the biennial convention of the union.
