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Delegates to AFSCME\’s national convention in San Francisco re-elected their two top officers, mapped local and national political plans to mobilize at least 40,000 activists and gave rousing receptions to Sen. Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, and to the candidate their union backed, Sen. Hillary Clinton.
As the world\’s largest coffee company announced plans to close 27 stores statewide, several baristas in the Twin Cities announced plans of their own to fight back. Those plans begin with forming a union.
Members of Minneapolis Building & Construction Trades unions, who lost a union brother in the collapse of the I-35W bridge, will join in memorial ceremonies Friday, the one-year anniversary of the disaster.
Nearly 90 women from dozens of different unions and backgrounds gathered July 22 at the first-ever "Minnesota Union Women\’s Leadership Gathering" in St. Paul.
Young and old, from all walks of life, some 1,500 people gathered in Postville, Iowa, Sunday to support immigrant workers and their families. View photos from the rally and march.
The Iowa town of Postville took center stage in the debate over the nation\’s failed immigration system, as 1,500 people rallied Sunday in support of packinghouse workers. The march came one day after three members of Congress met with workers to discuss worker and safety violations at the Agriprocessors, Inc., plant.
Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus met Saturday with workers and community leaders to discuss the May 12 immigration raid at the Agriprocessors, Inc., plant. Earlier in the week, a House subcommittee heard testimony about how the raid has split families and the community.
Union members, environmentalists and other citizens rallied Sunday to call on Governor Tim Pawlenty and other elected leaders to create and implement a plan for "green jobs."
AFSCME Local 404 members who were laid off last week at the Minnesota Security Hospital in St. Peter held a news conference to share their concern that the cuts put public safety and worker safety at risk.
Construction union leaders from across Minnesota, meeting in their annual convention, pledged an all-out effort to put Barack Obama in the White House and elect other labor-endorsed candidates in November.
