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During the past decade, 5.5 million American manufacturing jobs have disappeared, mostly due to bad trade and tax policies that encourage U.S. companies to move jobs overseas. Further fueling job loss has been the global economic crisis and lack of a comprehensive national manufacturing strategy.
Gerardo Torres, leader of the Honduran National Popular Resistance Front, will speak Friday at the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1189 hall about the fight for worker rights in his country.
Two recent media reports shed fresh light on a troubling trend inside Minnesota’s hospitals – that an ongoing lack of transparency, accountability and oversight leaves patients suffering and taxpayers footing the bill.
Workers at Plymouth-based U.S. Foodservice appear to have weathered the company’s attempt to gut their health care insurance coverage, ending a standoff that prompted both sides to prepare for a work stoppage earlier this month.
Under the banner, “We Are One,” more than 100 people gathered at Duluth City Hall Monday to speak out on behalf of worker and human rights.
Washington County residents can get an overview of the state’s deficit situation and learn about the impact of proposed cuts on education, human services and health care at a “Reality Meets Rhetoric” forum Thursday evening in Oak Park Heights.
Chanting “We Are One,” thousands gathered at the Cathedral of St. Paul Monday evening, then marched to the state Capitol to show their support for worker rights and a strong middle class. With video.
Hundreds of thousands of people, many of them wearing red or sporting red-white-and-black pins, massed at rallies, teach-ins and other events nationwide Monday in a show of strength for workers’ rights.
We know it. Now yet another study proves it: Unions are essential for building a strong middle class — and rebuilding the middle class is key to restoring the U.S. economy.
While collective bargaining is under attack in many parts of the country, it remains one of the few effective ways to preserve the American middle class, the chair of the National Labor Relations Board said.
