Nurses Association is a ‘newsmaker of the year’
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The Minnesota Women’s Press has named the Minnesota Nurses Association one of its ‘Newsmakers of the Year’ for the union’s leadership in improving our health care system.
Attacks on workers expected in next Congress
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Comp time for overtime. Vouchers. More tax cuts for the rich. Another attack on Davis-Bacon.
PACE locals co-sponsor Jan. 7 screening of ‘Silkwood’
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PACE Locals 7-264 and 7-662 are teaming up with Clean Water Action Alliance to sponsor a screening of the acclaimed film ‘Silkwood.’
Parking ramp workers picket sporting events
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Members of Teamsters Local 120 and supporters picketed parking facilities before the Minnesota Vikings and Timberwolves games Dec. 21 and continued their actions outside downtown parking ramps.
Migrant workers charge Owatonna company with unfair labor practices
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Migrant workers who toil in the vegetable packing plants of south central Minnesota say they are facing job losses and other illegal discrimination when they organize to improve working conditions and wages.
AFSCME, MAPE honored for state contract work
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AFSCME Council 6 and MAPE, the two largest unions representing state employees, have been honored for their work to support domestic partner benefits in state contracts.
PACE union to push national health care
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Adopting the late Tony Mazzochi’s last big cause as its own, the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers (PACE) will push single-payer national health insurance, union President Boyd Young’s top aide says.
AFTRA president heads union for the new millennium
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On TV, John Connolly has made special appearances on ‘The West Wing,’ portraying Matt Kelly, a working man dealing with a mortgage, the cost of sending his daughter to college and other economic pressures facing working families.
Teamsters to picket before Vikings, Timberwolves games
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Teamsters Local 120 will picket before Saturday’s Minnesota Vikings and Timberwolves games to call attention to the organizing campaign among 400 parking ramp workers.
AFSCME members back at work at WLSSD
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Members of AFSCME Local 66 are back at work at the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District after ratifying a new contract Monday that ended a two-week strike.