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UNITE HERE, which represents people who work as housekeepers, waiters, dishwashers and cooks in hotels and other facilities, is asking the Democratic National Convention Committee to choose Minneapolis or St. Louis as the host city of the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
The AFL-CIO is spearheading a national effort to support the millions of American workers still seeking jobs in the current recession. The federation has declared Tuesday, Dec. 7, an “Online Day of Solidarity” with jobless workers.
An internal Minnesota Hospital Association memo recently obtained by the Minnesota Nurses Association reveals that Minnesota hospital executives have no intention of honoring their very public pledge to work hand-in-hand with nurses to solve the unsafe staffing crisis that garnered international media attention during 2010 contract negotiations, the union said.
Entering the holiday season, unemployed construction workers find themselves in desperate times.
Contract talks are more than a month away, but east metro grocery workers sent a strong message Thursday about maintaining good wages, health care and retirement security.
With Thursday’s forecast that Minnesota’s budget deficit will be $6.2 billion for the next two-year cycle, unions called on lawmakers to take a balanced approach to addressing the shortfall.
Unemployment insurance does more than keep out-of-work workers afloat. It prevents additional workers from losing their jobs and gives taxpayers a 2-to-1 return on investment, a new Labor Department study says.
Construction is underway on a new 84-unit apartment building in southeast Minneapolis, financed by the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust, which is providing $13.5 million of union pension capital.
The revised, final report by the president’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility is an “unwarranted, outrageous attack on the health, safety, and retirement security of millions of nurses and tens of millions of other working people and should be immediately rejected by the Obama administration and Congress,” said the nation’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses.
On Tuesday, Anthony Roebuck’s unemployment insurance benefits ran out. It was the same day Senate Republicans would not even allow a vote on a bill to maintain the lifeline that has helped keep food on the table and a roof over the heads of Roebuck, his wife and young son — and millions of other jobless workers.
