Minnesotan authors new book on reviving the strike
Join a book release party and discussion Saturday, May 21, with Joe Burns, author of Reviving the Strike–How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America.
Community
Community
Retail cleaning workers to launch hunger strike
Workers who clean Twin Cities grocery stores plan to begin a hunger strike this weekend to compell management to meet and address their concerns.
Policy
‘Worker Dignity’ bill would raise people out of poverty
While many proposals at the state Capitol would undermine wages, attack pensions and put more people on the unemployment line, the “Worker Dignity” bill would raise incomes for many people.
Government
Workers to watch lawmakers in final days of session
As the 2011 legislative session draws to a close, the Minnesota AFL-CIO is organizing union members and other workers to keep an eye on lawmakers.
Women’s Leadership Retreat builds solidarity amid economic challenges
More than 100 women, most of them union members, gathered in late April for the second Minnesota Union Women’s Leadership Retreat sponsored by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service.
Policy
Tears shed at the Capitol – but does anyone care?
Gretchen Gubbins is about to run out of unemployment benefits and doesn’t know how she will live.
Health care workers express outrage with legislators’ funding plan
Health care workers say legislators’ plan to cut $1.8 billion from health and human services programs would be “disastrous for patients, seniors and the disabled.”
Organizing
Donato celebrated as ‘leader, mentor, friend’
Anyone clouded by cynicism about the labor movement these days ought to have been at the Italian American Club in Minneapolis April 20. Members of the National Association of Letter Carriers and others gathered there that night for a send-off for Branch 9 President Pam Donato, who is moving to Washington, D.C. to work as special assistant to NALC president Fredric Rolando.
Teamsters, safety groups open campaign against extra-large trucks
Calling them a safety hazard to drivers on the nation’s roads, the Teamsters and several safety groups and advocates opened a campaign against the truck lobby’s plans to put extra-large rigs on U.S. roads.
UFCW halts contract vote as international reviews proposal
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1189 has held up a scheduled May 15th vote on a new grocery industry contract while the international union reviews the proposal.