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Describing the financial devastation that hits workers after corporate bankruptcies, representatives from four unions and the AFL-CIO urged Congress to put workers first when companies take themselves into such turmoil.
The Union Advocate celebrates its 114th birthday this year. There will be no balloons, no cake and no singing, but the Twin Cities’ oldest labor newspaper is the recipient of a pretty exciting gift: an online, searchable archive of every edition published since 1907.
Women union members came together to celebrate their successes – and discuss strategies for building activism – at “New Directions in Leadership: A Discussion with Women Union Officers.”
Members of MAPE, the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, have formed a Women’s Caucus to promote female leadership in their union.
A contract Murray’s restaurant imposed on UNITE HERE Local 17 members must be rescinded, according to a decision by the Region 18 office of the National Labor Relations Board, Local 17 President Nancy Goldman reported.
A “People’s Movement Assembly” will be held in Minneapolis Saturday in preparation for the US Social Forum. Union members are encouraged to attend this historic social justice organizing event.
The Minnesota Nurses Association announced Friday that more than 12,000 Twin Cities nurses will conduct a one-day strike for patient safety beginning at 7 a.m. on Thursday, June 10. The work stoppage will be the largest nursing-related strike in U.S. history in terms of the number of nurses involved.
While the U.S. House is still hammering out a timetable for a vote on the Promoting American Jobs, Closing Tax Loopholes and Preventing Outsourcing Act of 2010 (H.R. 4213), lawmakers might move a little faster if they take a look at the latest report on the jobs bill. There are 1 million jobs at stake.
It stars Sally Field. It won two Academy Awards. It’s probably the most widely known union movie in this country. It’s “Norma Rae.”
Dakota people and allies, as part of the Take Down the Fort campaign, will conduct protests Saturday, May 29, against the celebration and proposed renovation of Fort Snelling and against Arizona’s new immigration law.
