Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2002/12/page/3/)
Among the thousands of numbers included in the new state budget forecast is the report that workers in Minnesota are being hit harder by the recession than workers in many other parts of the country.
The Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) announced that workers at Fingerhut Direct Marketing’s recently re-opened St. Cloud distribution center have chosen UNITE to represent them at the revived catalog company, following the union’s months-long struggle to save jobs at the facility.
With the temperature well below zero, members of AFSCME Local 66 are walking a picketline at Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD), the agency that provides sewage treatment services in Duluth.
The Duluth Central Labor Body, AFL-CIO, Machinists Lodge 459 in St. Paul and AFSCME Local 3800 in Minneapolis have passed resolutions opposing war in Iraq, joining scores of other labor organizations from around the country who have spoken out.
IAMAW Lodge 459 resolution on military action in Iraq
Duluth Central Labor Body resolution opposing war in Iraq
“War on Iraq: What Can Labor Do?” is the focus of a meeting Monday, Dec. 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the St. Paul Labor Centre, 411 Mahoney (aka Main St.)