Workday Magazine (https://workdayminnesota.flywheelsites.com/author/tsuperadmin/page/271/)
Rank-and-file union members, elected officials and many others are remembering Dick Radman as both a tough labor leader who would stand toe-to-toe with the boss and a thoughtful man who distributed home-grown roses and tomatoes.
The "Untold Stories" labor history series continues Thursday, April 30, at 7 p.m., with the film "Twin Cities Assembly Plant: A Job and A Family," at the Merriam Park Branch Library, 1831 Marshall Avenue, Saint Paul.
The Minnesota AFL-CIO will host workshops and showcase green building examples in the labor pavilion on the State Fairgrounds as part of this year’s Living Green Expo.
The Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Coalition and the May 1st Coalition will host the annual March for Immigrant and Workers\’ Rights on Friday, May 1, in Minneapolis.
Construction work at the new Minnesota Twins ballpark came to a stop for a few minutes at midday Tuesday, allowing the 800-some workers on site to gather in the right field stands for the Building Trades unions’ annual observance of Workers Memorial Day.
Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, one of the last Republican moderates, announced Tuesday he is switching parties and will run for re-election next year as a Democrat. But one news report said the veteran lawmaker is not switching his position against halting the planned GOP filibuster against the Employee Free Choice Act.
Just over two years ago, in one of the most horrific individual industrial accidents in recent memory, Eleazar Torres Gomez was sucked into a 300-degree industrial dryer at a Cintas laundry plant in Tulsa, Okla., and died.
Unions across Minnesota are participating in special events to commemorate Workers Memorial Day on Tuesday and honor those killed and injured on the job.
Members of AFSCME and MAPE will vote in June on tentative contract agreements reached last week with the State of Minnesota.
Caregivers and supporters of long-term care services for older adults will rally Tuesday at the Capitol to urge lawmakers to make funding for these services a priority in the state budget.
