Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2002/01/page/2/)
As dozens of supporters marched Thursday in frigid temperatures outside the Minneapolis Grand Hotel, leaders of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 17 charged management with profiting at the expense of low-paid workers.
Hotel and Restaurant Employees Local 17 expects to sign a labor peace agreement this week with the Holiday Inn RiverCentre and Mississippi Mud River Grill, gaining a victory in round one of its drive to reclaim the hotel and restaurant as a union house.
Teamsters Local 120 has organized a demonstration for 3 p.m., Friday, Jan. 18, at Novartis Nutrition Corp., Utica Ave. and Stephens Dr. in St. Louis Park. The union is protesting company actions that it says interfere with the right of Novartis employees to unionize.
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Hotel and Restaurant Employees Local 17 is adding another downtown hotel to its hit list for union-busting tactics.
Two movies about union organizing – one real, one based on real events – will be featured as part of two film discussion series this week.
Residents of the Chisago Lakes Area school district will join drivers and members of Teamsters Local 320 to question a School Board plan to contract out bus service in the district. The Chisago Lakes Area School Board meets Thursday, Jan. 10, at 7 p.m. at Chisago Lakes Middle School, 13750 Lake Boulevard in Lindstorm.
ISAIAH, a faith-based organization, and the A. Philip Randolph Institute, an organization of black trade unionists, will hold events to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The new contract covering 5,000 Hennepin County employees boosts the wages of the lowest-paid workers, a key aim in negotiations, union representatives said.
Responding to the events of the past several weeks, unions representing nurses and health care organizations will hold a special conference on terrorism and bioterrorism Jan. 17 and 18 at the RiverCentre in St. Paul.