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According to state records, the man who allegedly called AFSCME Council 5 and left a series of obscenity-laced voicemail messages with an invitation to Thursday’s Tea Party event, has a long history as a vendor with the state’s court system.
The “eyes of America are on Detroit and southeast Michigan,” say the organizers of a major gathering of activists that will take place there in late June.
After a week of being locked out of work, after daily picket lines and civil disobedience, window cleaners in Service Employees International Union Local 26 won a new contract, the union announced.
Last-minute tax filers will be greeted by members of AFSCME Council 5 on Tax Day, April 15, at post offices in Anoka, Bemidji, Brainerd, Cambridge, Duluth and Minneapolis. Union volunteers will ask taxpayers a simple question: “Are you tired of paying more so the rich can pay less?”
The guy on the billboard looks like he’s had too many jelly beans. Apparently, he’s not the only one who’s bloated. So is the billboard’s misleading claim about “metro area government employees” who make over $100,000 a year.
A temporary worker hired as a strikebreaker at Fabcon’s Savage manufacturing plant suffered burns from exposure to lime Monday and sought medical treatment in the emergency room at the Fairview University hospital.
A week-long strike at the Fabcon plant in Savage took a new turn Monday when a busload of strikebreakers crossed picket lines established by members of Laborers Local 563.
Fatal explosions at a refinery in Washington state and a coal mine in West Virginia saddened and outraged unions, which sent help for hurting families and investigative teams to the two sites while criticizing the companies involved for putting profits before people.
“Untold Stories,” the annual series of labor history programs sponsored by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, celebrates its 12th year with programs about food industry workers and our food system.
Cement mason Jessica Keeley had a message for lawmakers Wednesday at the state Capitol: “We want to collect paychecks – not unemployment checks!” With video.
