Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2002/04/page/3/)
City workers began a strike outside City Hall this morning at 7AM. “Union busting city officials including the mayor and the city council continue to squander thousands of taxpayer dollars on fees for attorneys that could be used to settle the contract,” said Kurt Errickson of AFSCME Council 14.
With a population becoming increasingly more diverse, members of the Minnesota Nurses Association have prepared a conference to address cross-cultural issues in the workplace. The program is designed to provide health care providers with new insights in working with colleagues and patients from a diversity of ethnic backgrounds
Layoffs are expected to begin April 22 as 3M starts shutting down abrasives manufacturing at its East Side plant. Overall, at least 250 production jobs and an additional 50 maintenance jobs will be eliminated by the end of the year, said Dennis Ramberg, secretary-treasurer of PACE Local 7-75, which represents the production workers.
Amid an uproar unseen in years at a Building Trades conference, Painters President Michael E. Monroe blasted Department President Edward C. Sullivan and announced he would challenge Sullivan for the top job.
Workers at Smead Manufacturing have voted to cut their workweek to 32 hours, rather than put about 100 of their co-workers out of a job. In doing so, they are taking advantage of a state program that helps companies retain key employees during recessions.
Mounds View city workers will go on strike Monday, April 22, the union representing the workers, AFSCME Council 14, announced.
Saying they are concerned about the safety of their patients, 106 registered nurses working at Fairmont Community Hospital and represented by the Minnesota Nurses Association have voted to strike.
Immigrant farm laborers who cultivate the raw food products used by Taco Bell and other fast food chains will discuss the exploitation they are facing in a program titled “The Everyday Face of Globalization: Fast Food, Farmwork and You”
City workers here have set an April 15 strike deadline in search of their first contract.
In a project that is the first of its kind in the nation, St. Paul building trades are teaming up with a new company to manufacture 100-percent union-made houses.