Defending worker rights at Delta Airlines
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.
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Under ‘labor peace ordinance,’ Teamsters begin organizing Minneapolis waste haulers
Teamsters Local 120 has won a neutrality agreement with Minneapolis Refuse, Inc. in a campaign to organize waste-hauling employees.
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Workers win at Smithfield
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.
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Squeezed Starbucks workers call on management to share the burden
The Starbucks Workers Union picketed the Mall of America on Black Friday to draw attention to the plight of the nation\’s retail workers on the busiest shopping day of the year.
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Employee Free Choice Act to be top priority for unions in 2009, though roadblocks remain
Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, to help level the playing field between workers and bosses in union organizing and bargaining, will be labor\’s top priority in the new 111th Congress, top AFL-CIO officials said. But roadblocks remain for the legislation.
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Local baristas join nationwide drive to organize Starbucks workers
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.
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Bricklayer takes helm at Minneapolis Building Trades
Mike Hawthorne will be the new business manager for the Minneapolis Building and Construction Trades Council, effective July 1, following the resignation of David Ybarra II. Hawthorne is a 25-year member of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 1 Minnesota/North Dakota.
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Workers organize at new luxury hotel in Minneapolis
Workers at the newest hotel in Minneapolis, Hotel Ivy, have signed union cards and organized as part of UNITE HERE Local 17.
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Leadership gathering for union women set for July 22
The University of Minnesota Labor Education Service, in conjunction with women from a variety of labor organizations, will host a Minnesota Union Women\’s Leadership Gathering July 22 in St. Paul.
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St. Paul canvass kicks off nationwide ‘We are Working America’ week
Congresswoman Betty McCollum joined labor leaders, volunteers and Working America canvassers on the streets of Little Canada on Monday, when the AFL-CIO kicked off "We are Working America" week nationwide.