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A National Labor Relations Board proposal to set standards and timetables for union recognition elections drew praise from union leaders and flak from Minnesota Congressman John Kline, the Republican who chairs the House Education and the Workforce Committee.
The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists are making another attempt to merge, with the active encouragement of the AFL-CIO.
The Letter Carriers’ annual “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive, the biggest single food drive in the U.S., garnered 70.6 million pounds of donated food on May 14, just short of the all-time yearly record set in 2010, the union said.
Members of unions including the Minnesota Nurses Association and National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 9 marched Sunday in the Twin Cities Pride Parade.
By just over 450 votes, the American Federation of Government Employees won a two-union runoff to represent the nation’s 43,000 airport screeners, formally known as Transportation Security Officers.
Unemployed Minnesotans are invited to a Resource Fair and Unemployed Worker Forum Wednesday at the Minneapolis Labor Center.
The women who led the massive sex-discrimination class action suit against Wal-Mart vowed to continue their fight against the world’s largest retailer even after the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out their class-action case Monday.
The Laborers’ International Union of North America led a rally in downtown Minneapolis to call for desperately needed investments in the country’s roads, bridges and water resources – investments that would create millions of middle-class jobs for the state and America.
Autistic children, nursing home residents and people with disabilities are among the Minnesotans whose lives would be seriously affected by a potential state government shutdown. They describe the effect in this video featuring citizens of Rochester.
Governor Mark Dayton filed court papers Wednesday aimed at keeping some state services functioning during a government shutdown, according to media reports.
