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With the Senate’s version of health care revision apparently going from bad to worse for workers, unionists on Thursday rallied and lobbied against one of the worst ideas in it: Taxing their health benefits.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said the federation will work “hard and non-stop” for quick congressional approval of the job-creation proposals announced Tuesday by President Barack Obama, even though unions are dubious about one of them, a tax credit.
After enduring a yearlong lockout, employees of Progress Casting are headed back to work with the sale of the company to new ownership.
Saying the state needs good, family-supporting jobs, the Minnesota AFL-CIO and the Minnesota Building & Construction Trades Council have announced their support of PolyMet Mining Company’s project in northeastern Minnesota.
General Motors and Chrysler, which took billions of dollars in federal loan guarantees with the promise to preserve U.S. jobs, are instead threatening thousands of union jobs – those of drivers who haul new vehicles on their huge trucks from factory to dealerships – the Teamsters say.
Transportation workers deserve the same rights as everyone else when it comes to voting on union representation, leaders of the Flight Attendants and Machinists said Monday at the state Capitol.
Workers at a fuel blending facility in Inver Grove Heights have won an acceptable contract settlement after their union, Teamsters Local 120, stepped up public pressure on their employer, Cenex Harvest States.
Hear polar explorer Will Steger give a video update from the United Nations Climate Change Conference and view a new film on the environmental crisis Saturday at the Minneapolis Central Library.
Hundreds of Twin Cities janitors — joined by Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and Congressman Keith Ellison — kicked off their contract campaign with a call to “make green cleaning a reality.”
While the recession, health care and the war in Afghanistan dominate the headlines, Minnesotans gathered Saturday to put the focus on the movement for a fair and just global economy.
