Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2003/09/)
?It?s simply wrong to make me choose between feeding my children and providing health care for them.? With that stark statement, AFSCME member Kim Mueller explained why she joined thousands of other state employees in rejecting the State of Minnesota?s contract offer.
AFSCME Council 6 and MAPE, which together represent 27,000 state employees, will jointly announce the results of their members’ votes on the state’s final contract offer Monday.
More than championing a set of just immigration reforms, the
activists on the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride are shaping the
future of American progressivism.
University of Minnesota clerical workers, poised to take a strike vote, delivered a letter to University President Robert Bruininks Thursday urging him to focus on workers and not a new stadium.
Workers at the Uptown Borders Bookstore, members of United Food & Commercial Workers Local 789, unanimously rejected management’s contract proposal in a vote Wednesday night.
They come from many different countries and for different reasons, but immigrants to Minnesota share one thing: a vision of the American dream.
Dozens of unions are among the organizations that have endorsed the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride.
Just over 40 years ago, the civil rights movement inaugurated the “Freedom Rides”–busloads of African-Americans and whites campaigning for equal rights nationwide. Now the labor movement is extending that to immigrants.
Despite the threat of protests by neo-Nazi groups, a celebration will bring together immigrants, their families and friends Thursday, Sept. 25, at 5:30 p.m. at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis. The purpose will be to salute the 80 Minnesotans who will board buses Sunday in support of immigrant workers rights.