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After “Bloody Friday,” in 1934, when Minneapolis police brutalized about 60 striking truck drivers, an old woman drove up to the strike’s headquarters in a truck filled with supplies.
Saying that his real reward “is seeing my work and art intertwined in the real lives of the people in the movement,” Ricardo Levins Morales accepted the Labor Heritage Foundation’s 2009 Joe Hill Award.
Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789 are picketing the new Trader Joe’s grocery store in St. Paul.
Saying the nation’s 21-year-old plant closing law needs to be widened and toughened to account for changes in today’s economy, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation in late June to do so.
Promising transparency in AFL-CIO affairs, pledging to fight to restore the middle class and vowing to listen to and heed grass-roots unionists, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka formally announced his candidacy for the labor federation’s presidency.
Changes in Washington have given fair-trade activists in the Twin Cities new hope that U.S. trade policy soon will focus less on profits for multinational corporations and more on labor rights, human rights and environmental impacts.
Clerical, technical and health care locals at the University of Minnesota, who reached tentative agreements on new two-year contracts, are bracing for the effects of further budget cuts.
Seventy-five years ago this summer, in grim economic times, all hell broke loose on the streets of Minneapolis. A strike by Teamsters Local 574 shut down all truck traffic in the city.
Now it’s official, as far as the labor-backed Economic Policy Institute is concerned: The present crash is the worst U.S. economic slump since the Great Depression. And that’s even before the June jobless numbers came out.
Minnesota’s new U.S. Senator, Al Franken, marked his first day in office Tuesday by signing on as a co-sponsor to a bill for the first time: the Employee Free Choice Act.
