Workday Magazine (https://workdayminnesota.flywheelsites.com/author/tsuperadmin/page/171/)
More than 200 Iron Workers and supporters conducted an area standard picket at a construction site in Lakeville Friday, to call attention to the fact that unskilled and underpaid workers are erecting the steel for a Walmart Supercenter. With video.
Union leaders reacted positively to Governor Mark Dayton\’s State of the State Address, praising his focus on jobs and working cooperatively with the Legislature.
Carrying signs and chanting “Fair contract now!” workers demonstrated Thursday outside the Saint Paul Hotel, where management is proposing a wage and benefit package below that provided by less profitable hotels. With video!
More than 200 people crowded a legislative hearing Wednesday to oppose a proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would limit voting rights by imposing ID requirements. The measure, backed by Republicans, advanced on a party-line vote.
Members of UNITE HERE Local 17 will demonstrate in front of the Saint Paul Hotel at noon Thursday to pressure hotel management to negotiate a fair contract.
Education Minnesota, the state’s largest union of educators, applauded the announcement that Minnesota has received a federal waiver to sections of the No Child Left Behind law.
Congressman Keith Ellison, DFLer representing Minnesota’s 5th District, will headline a rally Monday, Feb. 13, in support of University of Minnesota graduate student workers who are organizing a union.
Outraged at the inhumane treatment of workers in China who make iPads, iPhones and other Apple products, protesters visited a half-dozen Apple stores around the world to deliver petitions calling for reforms in the working conditions at factories run by Apple’s suppliers, according to Democracy Now!
As a long-running campaign for a fair contract continues, UNITE HERE Local 17 has filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board against the Crowne Plaza Bloomington hotel.
More than 300 Minnesotans gathered at the state Capitol and at Wells Fargo Place in downtown St. Paul Thursday to raise their voices in opposition to the proposed photo ID amendment.
