Workday Magazine (https://workdayminnesota.flywheelsites.com/author/tsuperadmin/page/284/)
So many potential Grinches, but only one top Grinch spot to fill. So voters in the ninth annual Grinch of Year contest picked the entire lot of Wall Street executives whose unchecked corporate greed led to our nation\’s economic disaster.
Members of Machinists Local 1833 are sending a message to Delta Airlines management not to interfere in workers\’ decision to choose their own representatives in the workplace.
Teamsters Local 120 has won a neutrality agreement with Minneapolis Refuse, Inc. in a campaign to organize waste-hauling employees.
Lilly Ledbetter, the longtime Goodyear tire supervisor whose pay discrimination case against her firm went all the way to the Supreme Court, lost $223,776 in lifetime earnings due to 19 years of discrimination at the tire firm\’s Gadsden, Ala., plant, a new report says.
Women active in their unions – and those interested in getting active in labor organizations – will learn new skills at the Minnesota Union Women\’s Leadership Retreat April 22-24, 2009.
Many working families are facing tough times this holiday season, including the workers locked out of their jobs at Progress Casting in Plymouth.
Union leaders welcomed the choice of pro-worker Rep. Hilda Solis, D-Calif., as Labor Secretary in the incoming Democratic Obama administration. If confirmed by the Senate, Solis would replace Bush Labor Secretary Elaine Chao.
After 15 years, three elections and rampant company labor law-breaking during the campaigns before the first two, the United Food and Commercial Workers finally won recognition at Smithfield company\’s giant pork processing and packing plant in Tar Heel, N.C.
The union representing laboratory workers and the American Red Cross have reached a tentative settlement, the union announced late Friday. An action planned for Saturday outside the Red Cross office has been cancelled.
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney Thursday praised President-elect Obama\’s reported plan to appoint Rep. Hilda Solis, D-Calif., as secretary of labor.
