Workers Snyders Drug ratify
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Employees at Snyders Drug Stores in the Twin Cities have overwhelmingly ratified a three-year contract that UFCW Local 789 President Bill Pearson calls ‘the best settlement ever’ at the pharmacy chain.
Probation officers create strike fund
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AFSCME Local 552, representing Hennepin County probation and parole officers, voted unanimously on June 21 to create a strike fund.
Lawyers pull event from Holiday Inn RiverCentre
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Under pressure from the National Lawyers Guild, the Minnesota State Bar Association moved an event that had been scheduled at a St. Paul hotel that is the site of a labor-management dispute.
LTV bankruptcy plan could hurt Minnesota workers
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LTV Steel’s bankruptcy plan could endanger pension and health benefits of 1,500 retirees in Hoyt Lakes, Minn., and 1,400 workers laid off when LTV closed its taconite plant on the Iron Range in January.
Fairview hospital, striking nurses to meet again Friday
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Negotiators for Fairview Health Systems and striking nurses will hold a second meeting Friday, June 22, at the request of a federal mediator, the Minnesota Nurses Association announced.
Discussion on immigrant issues planned for June 23
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Centro de Derechos Laborales (The Workers’ Rights Center) is organizing a discussion June 23 about conditions faced by Minnesota’s fast-growing Latino community, focusing on immigration, workers rights and cultural adaptation.
Other unions can learn from nurses’ counting mistake
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Other unions can learn some crucial lessons from the miscounted contract vote among nurses at two Minneapolis hospitals, labor lawyers say.
New AFL-CIO president puts focus on building the movement
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Ray Waldron, soon to become the chief spokesman for Minnesota workers, will sometimes drive through the Phillips neighborhood of south Minneapolis. As he passes his childhood home, he remembers what it was like to grow up in a tough neighborhood, one of three children of a single mother.
Union leaders praise selection of Waldron
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Union officials interviewed by Workday Minnesota praised the choice of Ray Waldron as president-elect of the Minnesota AFL-CIO. Following are some of their comments:
Striking Fairview nurses bargain Monday; union condemns
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A federal mediator has called both sides back to the bargaining table June 18 in an attempt to resolve the two-week old nurses’ strike against Fairview Health Systems.