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David Bacon, author of “Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants,” leads off the annual “Untold Stories” series Thursday with a speech at Macalester College.
Organized labor is among the groups opposed to a measure that will go on the ballot in November, amending the Minnesota Constitution to impose strict photo identification rules for voting.
Health care workers serving people who receive assistance from Minnesota Medical Assistance and Minnesota Care programs applaud the return of $73 million in health care cost savings to the state by major health plans.
Four new videos produced by the Labor Education Service feature workers talking about why they oppose so-called “Right to Work” legislation.
As Fire Fighters President Harold Schaitberger puts it, Mahlon Mitchell is “trying to make the leap from the firehouse to the Statehouse.”
Top union leaders are calling for one of the two Republican members of the National Labor Relations Board, Terence Flynn, to step down after the agency’s Inspector General found Flynn committed ethics violations while he was a chief counsel to GOP NLRB member Brian Hayes.
Members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and Screen Actors Guild have overwhelmingly voted to approve a merger, creating a new entity, SAG-AFTRA, the unions announced Friday.
The University of Minnesota Labor Education Service is offering a course April 14 for union officers and representatives on Trade Union Administration.
A trucking company owner faces felony “theft by swindle” charges for stealing thousands of dollars in wages from employees, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office announced Thursday. County Attorney Mike Freeman said the groundbreaking case should be a signal to all contractors to obey the law and pay their employees fairly.
The Legislature’s attempt to approve a “Right to Work” measure in Minnesota is just the latest in a string of anti-worker efforts going back to the days of the civil rights movement. Learn what the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had to say about Right to Work and worker rights at a special program April 4.
