Photos 2: Wisconsin protest signs
The thousands of people demonstrating in Wisconsin are using signs — many of them home-made — to communicate their message.
Photos 3: Wisconsin protest signs
The thousands of people demonstrating in Wisconsin are using signs — many of them home-made — to communicate their message.
Local series commemorates 100th anniversary of Triangle Shirtwaist fire
This spring across the United States, commemorative events will mark the 100th anniversary of one of America’s worst industrial tragedies: the March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City.
Korea trade agreement follows destructive model
Congress will vote any day on the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the largest free trade pact since NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, took effect in 1994. Despite President Obama’s campaign pledge to approach trade differently and the approval of a recent side deal on auto tariffs, this agreement reflects the same destructive model as NAFTA.
Government
Speaking out for Social Security
Federal budget cuts pose a threat to services to seniors, the disabled and families who have lost a parent or spouse, members of the American Federation of Government Employees say. The workers who provide these services demonstrated Wednesday at Social Security offices across the country, including Minneapolis.
Community
Dayton appoints four union members to Met Council
Four union members are among 16 appointments by Governor Mark Dayton to the Metropolitan Council, the governor’s office announced Wednesday.
Nurses flex muscle at state Capitol
Fresh from their one-day strike last summer that made U.S. history – and mindful of the protests taking place in Wisconsin – Minnesota nurses descended on the state Capitol Tuesday to continue to press for safe patient care.
Community
The way the cookie crumbles . . .
After weeks of protest in Madison, Wis., over Governor Scott Walker’s anti-worker agenda, reporters and pundits have expended thousands of words trying to explain the confrontation. But none sums it up quite so succinctly as a joke making the rounds at lightning speed through cyberspace.
Community
Thousands rally Saturday in all 50 states
Some 50,000 people took to the streets of every single capital in America Saturday to stand with Wisconsin and demand an end to the attacks on workers and to the cuts to vital services, organizers report. With video!
Trumka: ‘This is not about a budget crisis’
“No person should have to face the loss of their rights or the loss of their jobs,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. His remarks came in response to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s threat to begin laying off public employees if he doesn’t get his way on a budget bill that would strip away collective bargaining rights.