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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka had a positive reaction to the White House summit on health care that President Barack Obama convened with bipartisan congressional leaders Thursday – more than he had for Obama’s health care blueprint released three days before.
Executives from U.S. Bank agreed to meet with Rosalina Gavilan Gomez, a janitor at U.S. Bancorp in Minneapolis who cleans the office of U.S. Bancorp President and CEO Richard K. Davis. Gavilan Gomez had planned to deliver a letter to Davis, asking him for help to save her home — a home foreclosed on by U.S. Bank.
This is the 30th Anniversary of celebrating March as Women’s History Month. To honor the occasion, the University of Minnesota-Duluth Women’s Studies Department will host a presentation by author Jane LaTour.
Historic Saint Paul and the St. Paul League of Women Voters present two programs in March to commemorate Women’s History Month.
AFSCME locals at the University of Minnesota are organizing a rally March 4 at noon outside Morrill Hall on the university’s Minneapolis campus as part of a “National Day of Action to Defend Public Education.”
Despite a high number of votes for the International Association of Machinists, the election for 91 flight simulator technicians at the recently merged Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines was declared invalid by the National Mediation Board when fewer than 50 percent plus one of eligible employees participated.
Minnesotans will hold a vigil Monday at the state Capitol to urge a House override of Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s veto of General Assistance Medical Care, an action the Senate already has taken.
Add the Lake Superior News Guild to the growing list of unions contemplating hitting the streets against their employers. The Guild has the enviable position of having a lot of people who would love to join them in picketing against the Duluth News-Tribune and its parent company, Forum Communications of Fargo, N.D.
City of Duluth members in Local 66 soundly rejected a city contract proposal Tuesday and authorized their negotiating team to call a strike.
IUE-CWA Local 808 Thursday filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board against Whirlpool, alleging the company interfered with workers’ rights by threatening employees if they participate in a rally Friday to protest a plant closing.
