Ehrenreich featured on ‘Minnesota at Work’
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An interview with author Barbara Ehrenreich is featured on the current edition of “Minnesota at Work,” the cable TV program produced by the Labor Education Service at the University of Minnesota.
Union money brings housing, jobs to Minnesota
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An investment plan designed to provide solid returns for union pension funds is doing more than that – it’s providing hundreds of jobs for union construction workers and helping to ease the Twin Cities’ affordable housing crunch.
AFTRA members speak out against ‘corporatization of journalism’
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The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, known as AFTRA, brought its 58th annual national convention to the Radisson Riverfront Hotel in St. Paul this past weekend. Among the issues the 400 delegates addressed was the increasing focus on corporate profits in the news business.
BLE, UTU agree to merge
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After three and a half years of on-and-off talks and a surprise recommendation from one union’s advisory board, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the United Transportation Union signed a proposed merger agreement.
Other unions await new contracts with state
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AFSCME, MAPE and a number of smaller unions representing state employees have engaged in coalition bargaining on health insurance, but conduct individual negotiations on other contract issues. Here is a status report on those unions, whose contracts expired July 1:
State workers head toward strike
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Contract offers with paltry pay raises and dramatic shifts in health-insurance costs are pushing nearly 30,000 State of Minnesota employees closer to a mid-September strike.
Health insurance stalls university negotiations
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Negotiations for more than 3,000 union employees at the University of Minnesota are hung up over the university’s attempt to withdraw from the state health insurance plan and create one of its own.
Painters president challenges workers to stick together
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In a speech both heartfelt and unmistakably blunt, Painters General President Michael Monroe told Minnesota building trades leaders that if unions don’t get back to basics soon, the movement will see its remaining economic and political strength destroyed.
AFTRA holds national convention in Twin Cities
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More than 400 union members are attending the national convention of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists August 3 and 4 in St. Paul.