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Liberty Line vessels on the Great Lakes have names like American Courage, Fortitude, and Integrity. The names also define 80 members of United Steelworkers Great Lakes Seamen Local 5000 who continue their 10-month picket in a lockout/strike with the Liberty Division of the American Steamship Line.
Gerrod Williams made history July 9 as part of the first group of heavy equipment operators to graduate through a unique union-community partnership – and the first member of his class to get a job.
Dozens of AFSCME and MAPE members scolded MnSCU trustees Tuesday for paying bonuses to bosses while workers get pink slips and students pay more for tuition.
The U.S. Senate Tuesday broke the Republican blockade of unemployment insurance for long-term, jobless workers — a blockade that cost more than 2 million unemployed workers their benefits.
AFSCME Council 5, the state’s largest public employee union, is trying to stop bonuses for bosses at Minnesota State Colleges and Universities at a time when students are paying more for tuition and other employees are being laid off or taking wage freezes.
The financial sector overhaul legislation that President Barack Obama will sign this week is good, but focuses too much on overhauling government regulation of the financiers and not enough on overhauling the industry itself, analysts said. Still, unions and consumer advocates praised the overhaul as significant.
Hunting and fishing enthusiasts, including millions of union members, will soon find tens of thousands of new acres of land to explore, thanks to a new Open Fields program that union support on Capitol Hill helped push to the finish line.
Hiway Federal Credit Union is hosting a free lunch July 27 in honor of the hard-working government employees and military families in Minnesota.
Since the recession began 30 months ago, more than half of all adults in the workforce — 55 percent — say they have either been unemployed, taken a pay cut, had their work hours reduced or become involuntary part-time workers, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Social and Demographic Trends Project.
Three Twin Cities waitresses vented their anger Tuesday over Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer’s proposal to pay tipped employees less than the minimum wage. And they said they’ll take action come election time.
