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Eleven activists including the Rev. Paul Slack, pastor of New Creation Church were arrested in an act of non-violent civil disobedience on Thursday as a crowd of about 400-500 marchers demanding good jobs shut down traffic on the 10th Avenue bridge during the evening rush hour.
Governor Mark Dayton issued an executive order Tuesday authorizing a union election among licensed, in-home child-care providers who participate in the state’s Child Care Assistance Program.
After multiple votes by Congress to block President Obama’s jobs plan, clergy, unemployed workers, and local residents will march to “Bridge the Jobs Gap” Thursday, Nov. 17, in Minneapolis.
The Jimmy John’s restaurant group in Minneapolis has broken labor law in its campaign to keep the Industrial Workers of the World from organizing its nine Twin Cities-area outlets, again.
The United Food and Commercial Workers gained its second big union recognition election win at a meatpacker in two weeks on Nov. 4, just before the union and an international union federation met to discuss the impact of increasing concentration of the retail grocery industry into just a few megafirms.
Postal unions have launched a new TV ad that salutes our nation’s “real life heroes” and points out that a bill pending in the House of Representatives would force the Postal Service to fire tens of thousands of military veterans.
To prepare for the 2012 session of the state Legislature and the 2012 election year, the Minnesota AFL-CIO is planning a two-day training conference Nov. 15-16.
Cheap, unskilled labor is being imported to build a Mills Fleet Farm in Carver, while the company profits from a public subsidy and snubs the high-skilled craft workers who live in the project’s backyard, the Laborers union says.
Ohio voters Tuesday resoundingly overturned the anti-worker agenda pushed by Gov. John Kasich, Republican state lawmakers and outside interest groups which took away the right of public employees to collectively bargain for a middle-class life.
The Occupy Wall Street Movement that began in New York Sept. 17 and has since spread like wildfire across the world has made an undeniable impact on the social and political climate of the Upper Midwest.
