Job Opening: Communications Coordinator for Carpenters Council
The North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters has an immediate opening for a Communications Coordinator.
Rally puts spotlight on Best Buy treatment of workers
Best Buy, the giant retailer of TVs and other consumer electronics, had a great year in 2008. But you wouldn’t know that from its poor treatment of employees, said participants in a rally Monday outside the company’s headquarters.
Organizing
UFCW 789 plans rally at Best Buy corporate headquarters
On Monday, April 27, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789 is holding a "Shame on Best Buy Rally" in Bloomington.
Policy
Commentary: A statement about the Senate and House tax bills
Senate and House tax bills (S.F. 2074 and H.F. 2323) represent a fair and reasonable response to Minnesota’s historic state revenue shortfall.
Tentative agreement on state employees’ contracts (update)
Today Minnesota’s two largest public employee unions reached a tentative contract agreement with the state based on a mediator’s proposal. The proposal would preserve public services, save jobs and includes no wage cuts.
Policy
Lawmakers take aim at off-shore tax havens
Prompted by the convergence of Income Tax Day and a report showing up to $1 trillion over 10 years in U.S. tax losses due to offshore corporate tax havens, several lawmakers are trying to ban the corporate tax dodge.
AFSCME calls state contract proposal ‘unacceptable’
Negotiators for AFSCME Council 5 and the state of Minnesota met for “10 grueling hours” on Saturday, with the state demanding numerous givebacks that the union termed “unacceptable.”
Community
AFL-CIO retirees to hold fun(d)raiser on Saturday
The Minnesota State Retiree Council, AFL-CIO, will hold its Sixth Annual Fun(d) Raiser on Saturday, April 25, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 10 Hall, 1681 Cope Avenue in Maplewood.
Environment
IBEW sees sunny prospects for renewable energy jobs
Darryl Thayer, a member of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 292 in Minneapolis, hardly received a visionary’s welcome when he addressed the Minnesota legislature in 1968 about the need to develop solar energy and wean the state from fossil fuel-based sources. Worse yet, says Thayer, many of his fellow workers “thought I was nuts.”
Review: New biography of groundbreaking Labor Secretary is timely
A new biography, “The Woman Behind the New Deal,” brings Frances Perkins out of the footnotes and into the historically accurate limelight of unparalleled progressive policy advances.