Congressmen fail to block attack on overtime pay
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The House of Representatives has refused to stop the Labor Department from stripping time-and-a-half overtime pay from millions of American workers.
Minneapolis passes ordinance restricting immigration enforcement
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By an overwhelming vote, the Minneapolis City Council approved an ordinance restricting enforcement of immigration laws by police and other city employees. Proponents, including organized labor, said the measure was needed to stop immigrants from being unfairly targeted and to make communities safer by reducing fear of the police and other authorities.
Steelworkers say WTO ruling undermines U.S. security
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The United Steelworkers of America condemned a World Trade Organization ruling against emergency steel tariffs as ?the latest example of unelected trade bureaucrats undermining national sovereignty and long-established safeguard provisions of global trade agreements.” The decision is another setback for Minnesota’s troubled taconite industry.
Canadian, American unionists to meet here July 11-13
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The International Labour Council, which has been connecting Canadian and American union activists for 50 years, will meet in the Twin Cities July 11-13.
Community
Play tells forgotten story of striker Charlie Luth
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Are union principles worth dying for? That?s one of the questions in a new play, ?Remembering Charlie Luth,? which makes its debut July 14 in a free, one-time performance at the Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul.
Project keeps labor history from slipping away
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The first interviews take place this month in a two-year project to preserve Minnesota?s post-war labor history.
Librarian honored with Berman Award
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Sue Tracy, associate librarian for the Children?s Readmobile at the Hennepin County Library, has been selected as the recipient of the 2003 Sandy Berman Award for Social Responsibility in Library Services.
Celebration helps unions, clergy launch worker rights center
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The bond between the labor movement and communities of faith gets another boost July 11 when the Twin Cities Religion and Labor Network formally inaugurates its new Interfaith Center for Worker Justice.
Seniors campaign against GOP Medicare plans
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Blowing whistles in disdain and cheering speakers who support Medicare as it is, seniors descended on Capitol Hill to lobby against the GOP’s radical restructuring of the health care program for the elderly.
Thousands of workers challenge changes to overtime law
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Bob Adams, a bakery worker from Roseville, Minn., was among hundreds of workers protesting the U.S. Labor Department’s plans to undermine federal overtime law. In the past two weeks alone, more than 62,000 workers have sent letters telling the U.S. Department of Labor not to abolish their rights to overtime pay?-the most mail the agency has received on any similar issue in a decade.