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The labor movement and labor media have a chance – if they’ll take it – to fill a void in trusted communications left by the decline in “old media,” the failings of “new media” and the timidity of the Democratic Party, says John Nichols of The Nation magazine.
Citizens across the United States will rally in every Congressional district to support the U.S. Postal Service and its tradition of providing universal, low-cost postal service to every American.
The AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust and Greco Development LLC recently held an appreciation luncheon to honor union workers at the Flux Apartments\’ construction site in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis.
Sept. 23 is the date for a benefit fundraiser for Giovanni Delgado, the infant son of Cement Masons Local 633 member Edgar Delgado and his wife, Dina.
The United Auto Workers and General Motors have reached a tentative contract agreement covering 48,500 employees, which the union said achieved some major goals, including significant investments and products for GM plants, creating good new U.S. jobs and bringing back to this country some overseas manufacturing.
The Northeast Minnesota region has three times more job openings than two years ago, but job seekers outnumber full-time openings 7-to-1, according to the latest Job Vacancy Survey from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.
Some 500 Minnesotans from a variety of backgrounds gathered Saturday in Minneapolis in a grassroots movement to push for job creation – and got a pep talk from former Labor Secretary Robert Reich who said bold action is needed to solve the economic crisis.
Labor Education Service staff member Randy Croce will share the stories of “Who Built the Capitol?” at a meeting of the Cass Gilbert Society Tuesday in St. Paul.
On the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the union movement remembers those who lost their lives, those who risked their lives to get others to safety and those who took part in the cleanup and rebuilding efforts that followed.
Saying “we are in a national unemployment emergency,” Congressman Keith Ellison, D-Minn., has introduced the “Emergency Jobs Now Act” to require the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to create at least 3 million jobs in the next two years.
