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Duluth residents rallied Thursday at the Duluth Civic Center to call on Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Minnesota legislators to fully restore funding to the General Assistance Medical Care program to keep 33,000 poor adults covered.
The Minnesota AFL-CIO is leading a labor coalition that is looking for individuals with a current or past affiliation with organized labor who are interested in serving on the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees.
Twin Cities building owners could save up to $10 million a year – and benefit workers and the environment – by switching to daytime cleaning, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Blue Green Alliance and SEIU Local 26.
Journalists in the Star Tribune Newspaper Guild are removing their bylines from their stories in the newspaper and on www.startribune.com today to pay tribute to colleagues who are losing their jobs in a workforce reduction.
The AFL-CIO and the union-backed Americans for Financial Reform strongly support the Democratic Obama administration’s proposal to tax the nation’s now-very-profitable big banks to recoup the taxpayer dollars the government used to bail them out last year.
After employers failed to meet a deadline to discuss green cleaning and affordable health insurance, Twin Cities janitors set a strike authorization vote over unfair labor practices for Saturday, Jan. 30.
Members of United Auto Workers Local 879, employed at Ford Motor Company’s Twin Cities Assembly plant, are pitching in to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
Union membership in the United States stayed steady from 2008 to 2009, but dipped in Minnesota, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
The Minneapolis Area Local of the American Postal Workers Union wants the public to know about the possible sale of four metro area post offices: in Brooklyn Park, Plymouth, Savage and Wayzata.
Erroll Southers, the Obama administration’s nominee to head the troubled Transportation Security Administration – the agency that runs airport screening – withdrew his name from consideration Jan. 20.
