Duluth strikers voting on tentative settlement
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Members of AFSCME Local 66 are voting today on a tentative agreement to end the nearly two-week-old strike at the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District.
Wellstone Hall dedicated at Duluth Labor Temple
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More than 100 people gathered at the Duluth Labor Temple Thursday night to name the meeting hall in remembrance of the late Senator Paul Wellstone.
Carpenters’ issues with AFL-CIO still unresolved
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The Carpenters’ issues with the AFL-CIO are still unresolved, leaving the union’s role in organized labor up to further talks and a future AFL-CIO Executive Council decision, federation President John Sweeney said.
Duluth strike is issue of justice, workers say
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The reason 85 workers are on the picketline at the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District is a matter of simple justice, the chair of the union bargaining unit said.
Unions across country raise concerns about potential war
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Dolores Huerta has a new cause. It’s GOP President George W. Bush’s planned war against Iraq. She’s against it. And so are thousands of other individual unionists, plus a growing number of local labor organizations.
Retiree leader Neff is honored
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U.S. Senator Mark Dayton, D-Minn., paid tribute to the accomplishments of Stillwater resident and labor leader Erv Neff, who is stepping down after six years as President of the AFL-CIO’s Minnesota State Retiree Council.
Commentary: Something stinks at WLSSD
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It’s amazing how much misfortune seems to spring up in December as the holidays approach. Fires that claim lives in homes this heating season seem to be of the spectacular variety now and take far too many lives.
Sign up now for UMD’s labor history class
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‘American Working Class History and Culture: The Struggle for Control’ will be taught at University of Minnesota-Duluth during the spring semester, starting Jan. 22.