Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2001/03/page/2/)
Understaffing, low pay, and increasing reliance on outside staffing pools have created a crisis in long-term care in Minnesota, argues a coalition of caregivers and organizations who represent workers at those care facilities and senior citizens who live there.
School bus drivers and other employees at First Student Transportation will vote April 18-19 on whether to join Local 284 of Service Employees International Union.
The Minnesota AFL-CIO is offering eight $1,000 scholarships for graduating high school seniors, and four $500 scholarships for adults pursuing post-secondary education.
As organized labor gears up for four years of constant battles with a Republican White House, a necessary task is to construct permanent coalitions with allies in Hispanic, African-American, environmental, gay/lesbian and womens rights groups.
Nearly half the people who used Minnesota’s food shelves last year work for a living. Because of this, Minnesota FoodShare is highlighting the needs of the working poor in its March education and food drive campaign, titled ‘Working and Still Hungry.’
In a bill that targets union political activities, Rep. Mark Olson, R-Big Lake, has introduced ‘paycheck deception’ legislation in the Minnesota House.
Saying immigrant workers are among the most abused and exploited in the country, the AFL-CIO is launching a drive to force lawmakers to rewrite the nation’s immigration laws.
Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernard L. Brommer, leader of the state’s largest labor organization since 1990, will retire this summer.
The labor movement needs to reach out to immigrants, who are eager to join unions, labor educator and activist Kent Wong told union members and supporters in a speech at the University of Minnesota.
Workers at the Albert Lea Medical Center, part of the Mayo Health System, are engaged in a public campaign to build support for a fair contract. A major rally is planned Friday, March 23, at 4:30 p.m. at the gazebo at Broadway and Fountain in Albert Lea.