Workday Magazine (https://workdayminnesota.flywheelsites.com/author/tsuperadmin/page/255/)
Union members who attended a gubernatorial forum sponsored by the AFL-CIO are of two minds. On the positive side, they have many good choices. And on the negative side, they have many good choices.
The Wright County Labor Council is teaming up with Faith in Action of Wright County to organize a day of community service Saturday, October 3: “Neighbors Strengthening Wright Communities.”
The newest offering from documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” opens Friday, Oct. 2, at the Lagoon Theatre, 1320 Lagoon Ave., Minneapolis.
A handful of U.S. Senators have blocked what a majority of Americans want – a public alternative to private, for-profit health insurance, prompting this one-word comment by the AFL-CIO: “Disgrace.”
Registration is still open for the Minnesota AFL-CIO Labor 2010 Political Conference this Thursday and Friday, featuring a forum with gubernatorial candidates and a visit by Liz Shuler, the national AFL-CIO’s new secretary-treasurer.
American workers are ready for health reform, unions are telling Congress, which is expected to take a key vote on the issue this week.
The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library has planned a month of lectures, readings, discussions and activities for its “Soul of a People” program, which honors the 75th anniversary of the New Deal and the Works Progress Administration Federal Writers’ Project.
As the G20 nations meet in one of the nation’s oldest industrial cities, labor unions – led by the Pittsburgh-based United Steelworkers – are demanding action on the global jobs crisis. Many groups also are planning teach-ins and protests.
Supporters of health reform protested Tuesday at the Duluth offices of a major health insurer, part of actions across the country that put the spotlight on the insurance industry.
“The crisis in health care: What’s at stake for working women?” will be the topic of a union women’s luncheon Monday, Oct. 12, sponsored by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service.
