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As Minnesota lawmakers met late Tuesday in special session, they were slated to vote whether to invest $531 million in infrastructure projects and create thousands of jobs. Earlier in the day, both houses passed legislation to fund economic development and spur job growth.
About 200 delegates from dozens of construction unions are slated to participate in the 65th Annual Convention of the Minnesota State Building & Construction Trades Council Thursday and Friday in Duluth.
The proposed deal to end the state government shutdown will save 14,000 jobs for health care workers, protect 140,000 people from losing health care access and maintain critically important hospital funding, the Minnesota Nurses Association said.
Unions and their allies in civil rights, womens’ rights, community and faith groups have launched a new national campaign to recruit millions of new givers of eldercare, improve and enhance those workers’ rights and ensure needed care for the coming millions of elderly clients.
In 1931, postal worker and World War I veteran Arthur Lee moved into a new home in south Minneapolis at 4600 Columbus Ave. — where he, his wife and young daughter faced crowds of more than 1,000 people protesting violently to the presence of the black family in what had been an all-white neighborhood.
Union members are awaiting details of the agreement to end the state government shutdown announced Thursday by Governor Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders.
Nurses at Range Regional Health Services returned to work Thursday after participating in a three-day strike to protest alleged unfair labor practices by management.
At a news conference that mixed quotes from Scripture with economic analysis, faith leaders called on lawmakers to end the state government shutdown and adopt a budget that addresses Minnesota’s racial disparities in jobs and health care.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other panelists convened by the labor federation offered ideas Monday on how to get the U.S. out of its persistent jobs crisis, but the two politicians on the panel – both Democrats – admitted that aid from Washington is unlikely.
The nation’s leading nurses’ organization, National Nurses United, called on the Obama administration and Congress to oppose cuts in Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid, and instead increase national revenues with a tax on Wall Street speculation.
