Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2001/03/page/3/)
Congress has voted to remove new OSHA rules intended to reduce the number and severity of repetitive motion injuries affecting America’s workforce. Labor leaders condemned the move as a “slap in the face” of working people.
“Minnesota: Fading star of the North?” is the theme of a union-community forum set for 7 p.m., Thursday, March 15, at Christ Lutheran Church, University Ave. at Park St., in St. Paul.
Saying the Legislature was misled about the number of Minnesota workers who would build the Lakefield Junction power plant, Minnesota’s construction trades unions are pushing to repeal the property tax exemption the Legislature gave the plant in 1999. The exemption is worth an estimated $575,000 a year.
The National Labor Relations Board has ordered a new union election among school bus drivers employed by First Student Transportation in the Twin Cities. The new election could take place as soon as the end of March.
As predicted, President Bush signed four executive orders in mid-February which hurt workers. And he sent lawyers into federal court to delay benefits for coal miners disabled by black lung disease.
Whether you want to deliver your own opinions or hear some of Minnesota’s sharpest talkers hold forth, the place to be is at the Twin Cities Fourth Annual Op-Ed Slam at Kieran’s Irish Pub, Tuesday, March 6. Op-Ed Slam 2001 promises another exciting, high-energy evening as local celebrities and fine orators speak their minds on a wide range of topics.
By a vote of more than 96 percent, members of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association approved a strike against Northwest Airlines, which could happen anytime after 12:01 a.m. (EST) March 12.<
To say that Connie Rudolph is outstanding in her field tells only half the story.<
Educator and activist Kent Wong will speak Wednesday, March 7, at the University of Minnesota on the efforts of immigrant workers to organize into unions.
Public officials and labor leaders joined Teamsters and others in a rally March 2 to protest the likelihood that thousands of unsafe Mexican trucks will soon be driving U.S. roads.