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The nation’s two biggest postal unions urged lawmakers to help the U.S. Postal Service back to a sound financial footing, through a technical legal fix involving present funding for future retirees’ health care, rather than let the service cut post offices, fire workers and drop one day of mail service.
Last September, Rosemary Williams, a long-time resident and activist of South Minneapolis, received a Notice of Foreclosure on her home. Monday was her last day to legally reside in her home of 55 years.
More than 2 million working families in Minnesota will collectively get $1.1 billion to help them weather the current economic storm through the new federal tax credit that takes effect this week, the Obama administration said.
“Untold Stories,” the award-winning labor history series sponsored by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, celebrates its 11th anniversary with over a month of lectures, tours, performances and more.
Citing differences over pay and health insurance, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 949 is conducting informational picketing of the City of Cross Lake and Crosslake Communications.
The organization Fair Food Twin Cities is hosting three events Saturday, April 4, focusing on the working conditions of migrant farm workers in Mexico and the role of agribusiness, migration and corporate and consumer responsibility in food policy.
The bottom line is this: Local Government Aid makes it possible for cities to afford libraries, recreation programs, police and fire protection. But more than anything, according to speakers at a Capitol rally March 26, LGA saves lives.
CWA members in Minneapolis, facing an April 4th expiration of their contract with AT&T, are joining union members across the state and nation in gearing up for a possible strike.
In a highly charged meeting of the state Senate Business, Industry and Jobs Committee Friday, lawmakers tabled legislation that would allow employers to pay tipped employees below the minimum wage, but indicated it may not be dead in the 2009 session.
As I walked past the portrait of Floyd B. Olson in the Capitol Friday, I could swear I saw the state’s first Farmer-Labor governor cover his face with his hands.
