Workday Magazine (https://workdayminnesota.flywheelsites.com/author/tsuperadmin/page/86/)
The 1934 Minneapolis truckers strikes are one of the great watershed moments in the history of the American labor movement. Yet no memorial commemorates these milestone events. Now a group of labor activists, historians and sympathizers is raising funds for a permanent marker.
Less than 24 hours after 5,000 workers marched on McDonald’s corporate headquarters, the burger giant’s cooks and cashiers returned to Oak Brook Thursday morning to bring their call for $15 and union rights directly to the company’s shareholders at their annual meeting.
In a big win for workers and their allies, the Los Angeles City Council voted to raise the minimum wage in the nation’s second-largest city to $15 an hour by 2020 for large businesses and to that level by 2021 for smaller companies.
Janitors who clean big-box and department stores in the Twin Cities announced two key developments in their campaign for better wages and working conditions Wednesday, setting a new strike deadline and filing a class-action lawsuit to recoup wages allegedly lost to wage theft.
“The People’s Music: Jazz in St. Paul” was the focus of an Untold Stories program co-sponsored by the Labor Education Service and featuring musical performances.
Unions and other progressive organizations are sorting through the flurry of bills passed in the final days of the Minnesota Legislature’s 2015 session, including the likelihood of a special session on K-12 education funding.
Transportation advocates launched a three-day “Duct Tape Tour” of Minnesota on Tuesday, pointing out that the state’s crumbling roads and bridges will not fix themselves and will, in fact, only cost more the longer the Legislature ignores the problem.
The Metropolitan Airports Commission is poised to raise wages for 2,800 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport workers to $10 an hour, but the workers say the increase won’t lift them out of poverty. And they say the MAC faces a “credibility gap” after it delayed implementation of a new paid sick leave policy.
AFSCME Council 5 has organized a second group home system in the Duluth area. The National Labor Relations Board has issued a “certificate of representative” for AFSCME at AHL Healthcare Group, which does business as At Home Living Facilities, Inc.
Members of the American Postal Workers Union hit the streets nationwide Thursday in another national day of action. Members and supporters of APWU Greater Northland Area Local 142 rallied in Duluth, which may have been the only event in Minnesota.
