Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2001/11/)
The ‘Guns and Hoses’ benefit sponsored by local police and fire unions has raised more than $100,000 for families of victims of September’s terrorist attacks in New York City, and money is still coming in.
After unsuccessfully trying to get owners and management at five Canal Park hotels to voluntarily recognize the collective bargaining wishes of their housekeeping staff, Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Local 99 is about to mount an aggressive campaign against them.
By virtual two-to-one margins, members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters re-elected President James Hoffa and Secretary-Treasurer C. Thomas Keegel to new five-year terms.
Exterminating the Minnesota Twins would cost 500 unionized vendors and concession workers huge portions of their income, and throw some out of work entirely, says Bill McCarthy, president of Hotel and Restaurant Employees Local 17. The job losses would compound the problems facing hospitality industry workers since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
With the Republican-run U.S. House setting a Dec. 6 date to vote on fast track legislation, labor is increasing its lobbying against the measure.
The Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE) ratified a new two-year contract with the State of Minnesota effective July 1, 2001, to June 30, 2003.
Representatives of organized labor and business, as well as economists and health experts, are scheduled to participate in a “homeland security” conference Nov. 27 hosted by Congressman Martin Sabo, D-Minn.
Five of the six bargaining units represented by AFSCME Council 6 have voted to ratify a tentative agreement with the State of Minnesota, the union announced Monday. Corrections officers, who are “essential employees” by state law and therefore prohibited from striking, have rejected the proposal and their contract will go to binding arbitration.
Representatives of airline workers are lauding President Bush’s signing of a new aviation security bill that will, among other things, put federal employees in charge of airport passenger screening.
Now that the U.S. is in a recession, holes in our social safety net are more apparent. To preserve and enhance national unity as we campaign militarily against terrorist fanatics, it is important to expose and repair those holes.