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The Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition and the Sierra Club will celebrate World Fair Trade Day with a free screening of a film that exposes the costly side of “free” trade and offers ways to help create positive change.
In August 1985, workers went on strike at the Hormel plant in Austin, Minn. The conflict bitterly divided the labor movement and the community.
Women who would like child care provided while they participate in the Midwest School for Women Workers have until May 28 to make that request. That’s also the deadline for early registration and requesting English/Spanish interpretation.
To provide more resources for teaching about workers and labor history, the Labor Education Service has released a new video and website devoted to teaching about the Minneapolis truckers’ strikes of 1934. LES also has embarked on a new student-focused project documenting the history of the state Capitol.
The nation’s largest one-day food drive takes place Saturday, May 8, sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers. The goal: to collect more than one billion pounds of food nationwide.
Ryan Vernosh, a sixth-grade teacher at Maxfield Magnet Elementary School in St. Paul, has been chosen 2010 Minnesota Teacher of the Year.
As the Republican Party meets at the Minneapolis Convention Center today to endorse a candidate for governor, both of the two leading contenders offer poor voting records on working family issues.
Minnesota unions held several events to commemorate Workers Memorial Day. With video.
Thousands of immigrant families and supporters plan to march Saturday in Minneapolis to protest Arizona’s new immigration law and to advocate for fair and humane immigration reform. Update: The march route has been changed to end at the Republican State Convention.
The AFL-CIO Organizing Institute will host a three-day training for union members May 21-23 in St. Paul.
