Tentative agreement reached at eight Twin Cities hospitals

SEIU Healthcare Minnesota members at eight Twin Cities Hospitals have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract that includes strengthened health and safety provisions to protect both workers and patients.

Friday is deadline to register for Google class

Friday, March 6, is the deadline to register for “The Wonderful World of Google,” a labor studies skills course offered by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service.

Talks to resume March 4 in strike at Sappi

The easy part of figuring out how long the five members of United Steelworkers Local 11-63 have been on strike at Speciality Minerals in Cloquet is to count the number of days so far in 2015.

Oil refinery workers say strike is a matter of life and death

The wife of a striking Steelworker walking a picket line at a Texas oil refinery sums up in one sentence why her husband and thousands of other USW members were forced to walk off their jobs three weeks ago.

Koch-funded institutions line up in support of anti-worker bill

It’s a rare citizen who would rush to testify that the higher wages, benefits, and training that unions bring are a bad idea. Fortunately, the Wisconsin GOP had the full support of the Koch-funded “think tanks” that are a critical part of the right-wing infrastructure.