Nurses, hospitals announce settlement
At 3 p.m. Thursday, the Minnesota Nurses Association and 14 hospitals announced a contract settlement, averting a scheduled strike.
Bay Area dockworkers answer Palestinian call for solidarity
Bay Area dockworkers refused to cross a picket line last month, leaving a ship loaded with cargo from Israel floating offshore.
Community
Community forum to discuss municipal IDs
Several organizations are holding a forum tonight to discuss creating municipal identification cards for the city of Minneapolis.
Nurses to rally as Tuesday strike date approaches
Nurses will gather at St. Paul’s Midway Stadium Monday on the eve of a potential strike against 14 Twin Cities hospitals. Unlike a one-day walkout June 10, this strike would be open-ended.
Supreme Court tosses out NLRB’s 2-0 rulings
The National Labor Relations Board faces an unhappy problem: Re-rule on at least 74 cases pitting management against their workers – and possibly as many as 600.
Policy
Senate GOP filibuster kills jobs bill – again
Once again, a successful Senate Republican filibuster has killed a jobs bill – even after Democratic leaders watered it down to attract support.
Nurses,hospitals make no progress in Thursday’s mediation
A statement issued by the MN Nurses Association stated that "zero progress" was made on Thursday. They plan to file a 10-day strike notice today.
The corporate betrayal of Cananea
In mid-May, mineworker Julian Arredondo leaned casually in the shade of a ruddy brick building in Cananea, Mexico, avoiding the noon-day sun. Perhaps 100 feet away, the traditional red and black flag of a declared strike hung on the chain-link entrance to one of the largest copper mines in the world.
Organizing
United Auto Workers elect new president
Delegates to the Autoworkers’ constitutional convention elected Bob King, the union’s vice president for Ford and its former organizing director, to succeed the retiring Ron Gettelfinger in the president’s chair.
Murray’s to contest NLRB ruling that backed union
The owners of Murray’s restaurant plan to contest a National Labor Relations Board ruling rather than accept a finding by the NLRB’s District 18 office that the restaurant illegally imposed a contract on workers and refused to bargain in good faith with UNITE HERE Local 17.