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Poultry workers in the United States suffer high rates of injury, earn poverty level wages and work in a climate of fear, according to a new report by Oxfam America, produced in association with a Minnesota-based worker center and other groups.
Looking for Pearson Candy Company’s “Nut Goodie,” visitors to the company’s public Halloween party on Tuesday were handed leaflets warning them that the company has gone “Nut Greedy” in contract negotiations with its workers.
“Creating Relationships that Build Power for Change” will be the theme for a meeting Nov. 5 for community members in the northwest suburbs.
New research supports a connection between unionization and better outcomes for children.Researchers, including noted economist Richard Freeman, found that “parents’ unionism has a significant relationship with their offspring’s well-being.”
Nov. 4 is the deadline to register for the Labor Studies Skills Course on “Social Media for Organizing and Mobilizing.”
Workers at Pearson’s Candy Company in St. Paul plan to protest management’s demands for contract concessions at 4 p.m. today as the firm holds its public Halloween open house.
Sandra Peterson, who helped guide the merger of Minnesota’s two largest teachers unions before moving into to a career in state politics, died Saturday while receiving hospice care. She was 79.
Longtime labor leader Louise Sundin became interim president of the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation Oct. 13.
Faith leaders from Minneapolis Thursday called on elected officials to begin addressing Minnesota’s alarming racial disparities by guaranteeing all workers access to earned sick and safe time.
While two panels of judges considered challenges to their collective bargaining rights, home health care workers rallied Wednesday outside the U.S. Federal Courthouse in St. Paul to reaffirm support for their union.
