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The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees is setting a bad example by handing out a $40,000 bonus to its chancellor, James McCormick, said the union representing many MnSCU workers.
With Twin Cities nurses set to vote Monday whether to authorize an open-ended strike, hospitals say they will agree to return to the bargaining table – but with conditions.
As the U.S. Senate considers a much-needed jobs bill with no certain date for a vote, the AFL-CIO union movement continues to push lawmakers to put the needs of workers and the economy before concerns over the nation’s budget deficit.
Citing an “illegal selective lockout” of hundreds of nurses following last Thursday’s one-day strike, the Minnesota Nurses Association has scheduled a vote Monday on an open-ended walkout.
Leaders of the Dakota County Regional Chamber, Minnesota Building and Construction Trades, and City of West St. Paul joined local Sierra Club members Monday to release “Greening Dakota County Cities,” a new report highlighting energy-saving projects in eight Dakota County cities that reduce energy use, save taxpayer dollars and build the clean energy jobs economy.
Unions representing University of Minnesota workers plan a call-in day to protest the administration’s plan to institute mandatory furloughs for employees.
The deadline is June 18 to register for the Midwest School for Women Workers, to be held July 28-Aug. 1 on the University of Minnesota campus.
The Minnesota Nurses Association, alleging four hospitals illegally locked out nurses after their one-day strike, filed unfair labor practice charges Friday with the National Labor Relations Board.
Their final hours of picketing marked by downpours and lightning, Twin Cities nurses ended their one-day strike at 7 a.m. Friday.
At about 6:30 this morning, in the closing minutes of a 24-hour strike by Twin Cities nurses, a handful of pickets stood at their posts in the rain outside Fairview Southdale Hospital.
