Workday Magazine (https://workdayminnesota.flywheelsites.com/author/tsuperadmin/page/201/)
As hundreds of people jammed the state Capitol Tuesday in a show of solidarity with Wisconsin workers, they – and Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton – vowed to oppose the anti-labor agenda being pushed in many states.
As Minnesota lawmakers focus on anti-labor legislation instead of a job-creation agenda, more and more state residents find themselves jockeying for fewer and fewer full-time jobs.
While media attention has focused on protests against anti-labor legislation in Wisconsin, lawmakers in Minnesota have been quietly putting forth an agenda that would increase corporate giveaways and put a higher burden on working families.
By a 250-176 margin, the GOP-run House voted in the wee hours of Feb. 17 to keep, not abolish, the National Labor Relations Board. But the failure of the amendment to kill the agency still left it facing a 17.6% funding cut for the year ending Sept. 30.
Approximately 1,000 labor union members, friends of labor and their families picketed at a “solidarity with Wisconsin workers rally” in Hudson, Wis., on Saturday. View photos from the event.
If you had told any of our group of eight teachers a month ago that we would be spending a sunny afternoon in February picketing at the state capitol in Madison, we would have thought you had lost your mind.
Bill Tomberlin isn’t a public employee or a union member. But the Hudson resident joined hundreds of others Saturday to protest Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s attempt to strip government workers of their collective bargaining rights.
From Juneau, Alaska, to San Juan, Puerto Rico, communities across the country are planning rallies in solidarity with the workers in Wisconsin.
The Minnesota AFL-CIO has called a rally Tuesday at the state Capitol to show solidarity with workers demonstrating in Wisconsin against Governor Scott Walker’s attack on collective bargaining rights.
Legislators vote Monday to fill four positions on the University of Minnesota Board of Regents and appear set to choose a former Republican legislator over the lone worker representative on the panel, Minnesota AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Steve Hunter.
