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The Twin Cities Area Labor Management Committee recognized the work of several joint labor-management committees at its 2009 annual meeting held May 13 at the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local #49 hall.
Union women from across Minnesota participated in the first-ever Minnesota Union Women\’s Leadership Retreat April 22-24, 2009, at Ruttger\’s conference center near Brainerd.
More than 140 women from dozens of different unions participated in the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service’s first-ever Union Women\’s Leadership Retreat April 22-24 in Brainerd.
The current economic crisis poses special challenges for injured workers, who may feel reluctant to report injuries they’ve incurred on the job, a noted workers’ compensation attorney says.
The Minnesota Nurses Association is seeking a Director of Organizing and Field Operations.
SEIU Health Care Minnesota members overwhelmingly approved a three-year contract with Saint Marys Hospital, the union announced.
Governor Pawlenty’s stubborn refusal to work with the Legislature to resolve Minnesota’s budget shortfall will deepen the state’s economic crisis, union leaders said.
Unions and their members will be a “gigantic part of the solution” to rebuilding the middle class, Vice President Joe Biden told the 3,000 delegates to the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department’s legislative conference.
In a grueling and sometimes-tearful session on Sunday, May 17, the House failed to overturn Governor Tim Pawlenty\’s veto of its tax and finance omnibus bill, by an 85-49 party-line vote that saw two DFLers defecting to the Republican side. By an 87-47 vote, the House also failed to overturn the Pawlenty line-item veto that ends medical assistance for 30,000 General Assistance recipients in mid-2010.
With the Legislature facing a midnight Monday deadline to complete work in the 2009 session, lawmakers attempted but failed to override Governor Tim Pawlenty’s veto of a tax bill.
