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Members of Hotel, Hospital, Restaurant and Tavern Employees Union Local 21, working at Albert Lea Medical Center, held a rally and march to show hospital administrators they are serious about their demands for equal wages and affordable health care.
The union representing 200 striking bus drivers, teachers’ assistants and food service workers in the West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan school district is seeking a meeting with the district’s School Board.
About 1,400 licensed practical nurses from around Minnesota are now part of AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
Twin Cities area clergy are urging the managers at First Student Transportation to provide a fair atmosphere for an upcoming union vote by 1,500 school bus drivers and other employees.
“Respect and Dignity” is the major theme of the contract campaign by Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Local 99 at the Holiday Inn and Radisson Hotels in Duluth.
Despite working more hours than any other industrialized country, American workers are not taking the time off they need, reports a new study by Oxford Health Plans, Inc. And their health is at risk.
Building Trades members are keeping up the pressure on the Legislature to pass a bill revoking the property tax exemption for the Lakefield Junction power plant.
Last year, after an undercover investigation, Indian police raided Menim Gupta’s carpet-making factory in Varanasi, India, the center of the Asian nation’s “carpet belt.” What they found there was appalling.
The State of Minnesota operates dozens of programs (nursing homes, group homes, activity centers, crisis programs, clinics and other services) to help maintain the health and well being of thousands of Minnesota residents. Ten or twenty years ago, many of these people would have lived in state hospitals. Today they live in more normal community settings, and in care facilities closer to their families.
Ever wonder how your salary compares to others in your field? Trying to decide if you should move to another area of Minnesota? Data recently released by the Minnesota Department of Economic Security (MDES) makes it easier to answer these questions.