Workday Magazine (https://workdayminnesota.flywheelsites.com/author/tsuperadmin/page/248/)
President Barack Obama’s Dec. 3 White House summit meeting on jobs produced a raft of ideas from unions and worker allies on job creation — but nothing that could put the 15 million jobless to work tomorrow.
Teamsters Local 120 brought a message to stockholders attending the annual meeting of CHS, Inc. Thursday: negotiate in good faith with the union.
Liz Freeberg, one of thousands of unemployed Minnesotans, has a message for those gathered Thursday at President Obama’s White House job summit: “Keep focusing on the fact that this is about putting people back to work.”
The Minnesota State Building and Construction Trades Council, which represents 50,000 construction members across the state, has endorsed Sen. Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, for governor.
Cenex Harvest States, an energy and agricultural conglomerate based in Inver Grove Heights, has raked in record profits in recent years, but members of Teamsters Local 120 who work for the company say those profits are not trickling down to the shop floor.
At a White House jobs summit Thursday, union leaders will urge President Barack Obama to take quick action to help the nation’s more than 26 million unemployed or underemployed workers.
Twin Cities janitors and supporters will gather Saturday to launch a new contract campaign focusing on full-time, family-supporting jobs that also are good for the environment.
The Senate Labor Committee has approved Dr. David Michaels, a public health specialist who helped craft the federal program to aid former nuclear weapons workers who became sick from radiation, as head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
In the wake of Wednesday’s grim state budget forecast, labor leaders urge lawmakers to put aside politics and fairly raise the revenue needed to provide public services.
The University of Minnesota Labor Education Service, which trains thousands of people every year in topics ranging from collective bargaining to global economics, has revamped its programs to meet the challenges facing workers and their organizations.
