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Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s veto of legislation to create a statewide health insurance pool for school employees “wastes a golden opportunity” to save millions of dollars that could be spent in classrooms, Education Minnesota said.
Labor Education Service staff member Randy Croce is the recipient of the University of Minnesota 2010 President’s Award for Outstanding Service.
Unions are applauding new rules that allow workers in the airline and rail industries to choose representation by majority vote. The change is likely to have a profound effect on possible elections at Delta Airlines and other air carriers.
Education Minnesota announced Saturday that it has endorsed Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher for governor of Minnesota.
A remembrance will be held at the state Capitol Tuesday for Mark McAfee, a member of the AFSCME Council 5 political staff, who died unexpectedly May 6.
Nearly 3,000 Twin Cities nurses took to the streets Thursday in a powerful display of solidarity, conducting informational picketing outside three area hospitals. With video.
A fund has been created to help members of Laborers Local 563 who have been on strike at Fabcon, Inc., for nearly a month.
Rep. Jim Davnie, DFL- Minneapolis, has introduced legislation aimed at reducing deaths in the state’s window cleaning industry, which has experienced three fatalities in recent years.
A bill that would save Minnesota schools hundreds of millions of dollars while improving health insurance for thousands of school employees now awaits Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s signature.
Forty home health and hospice workers at North Memorial Home Health and Hospice voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to unite with the 17,000 members of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota, the union announced.
