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Unions, led by the Teamsters, the Laborers, the United Food and Commercial Workers and the AFL-CIO, strongly backed the National Labor Relations Board\’s proposal to change union recognition election procedures.
Some 3,000 delegates to the Steelworkers international convention declared the union is ready to fight for workers and jobs – and against both the financial elite that ran the world into the Great Recession and politicians of all stripes who toadied to financiers’ demands.
Workers at Verizon who have been on strike since Aug. 7 will return to work Tuesday under terms of the previous contract while talks continue, unions announced.
The nation’s two big postal unions, the National Association of Letter Carriers and the American Postal Workers Union, blasted a Postal Service scheme – released just days before bargaining began with NALC – to have Congress tear up the unions’ contracts and let the agency fire 120,000 workers.
The Minnesota Association of Professional Employees will urge Minnesotans to vote against an amendment to the state Constitution that would ban gay marriage.
More than 200 Minnesotans gathered outside the Wayzata Country club Wednesday to demand attention from their member of Congress, who spent the day playing golf with donors for $10,000 a ticket.
Members of United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1189 protested at two Kowalski’s stores Wednesday after the St. Paul grocer dropped out of negotiations and imposed a contract that includes wage and pension cuts.
Members of Working America plan a "Buyer\’s Remorse" booth outside Rep. Michele Bachmann\’s district office to call attention to her lack of action to create jobs.
The University of Minnesota Labor Education Service announces its 2011-2012 schedule of non-credit courses that provide a foundation in “nuts & bolts” areas important to working people. Classes are open to all.
Contract talks resume this week between Twin Cities east metro grocery chains and the union representing 5,000 workers. But rallies are set for Wednesday outside Kowalski’s, which has refused to continue negotiations.
