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The AFL-CIO Executive Council, frustrated by the Senate’s repeated retreats on health care, seriously considered pulling the labor federation’s support for health care revision, one report said last week.
A two-year-old law intended to improve safety for meatpacking workers has failed and conditions in many plants have actually gotten worse, according to a survey by the Human Rights Program at the University of Minnesota.
The health care bill being considered by the U.S. Senate is inadequate and too tilted toward the insurance industry, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Thursday.
Twin Cities janitors represented by Service Employees International Union Local 26 invite other union members and supporters to join them at a solidarity meeting Monday.
As the state of Minnesota puts the final touches on its entry in the federal Race to the Top competition, Education Minnesota announced its own proposal for using federal dollars to more directly support great teaching and learning in the classroom.
While expressing hope for an agreement at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, the Blue Green Alliance said Congressional action is key to reaching a long-term, international plan to address the challenges facing the planet.
The elegant statue of a woman, holding a lily – symbol of rebirth – in one hand and gesturing with delicate flower petals in the other, stands in St. Paul’s Calvary Cemetery.
The AFL-CIO’s regional labor federations are sponsoring programs to help unemployed workers and other families in need this holiday season.
A nationwide campaign to organize 40,000 airport security screeners includes workers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, where union organizers and supporters are taking part in a week of solidarity actions.
Minnesota unions presented members of the state’s Congressional delegation with several goals for health care reform: Include a public alternative to private insurance, cover everyone, control costs and focus on prevention.
