Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2004/12/page/2/)
With talks to establish a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) dead for more than a year, the anticipated passing of the Jan. 1, 2005, deadline for negotiating a pact marks a victory for organizations that have fought the corporate globalization agenda, Public Citizen said.
Here is the current schedule for Minnesota at Work, the weekly cable program sponsored by the Minnesota AFL-CIO and produced by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service.
Add the Teamsters to the list of unions that want to shake up the AFL-CIO–and add them to the list of those who want union mergers.
Saying George W. Bush’s partial privatization plan for Social Security would dramatically cut everyone’s retirement benefits, the AFL-CIO said it is joining a broad coalition to oppose the scheme.
It really is mourning in America when President Bush seeks to sunset the Social Security system workers rely on for a measure of dignity in life?s twilight, according to this commentary by retired Minnesota AFL-CIO Communications Director Ron Cohen.
Twin Cities Building Trades unions, engaged in a simmering dispute with contractors hired by the rapidly expanding CVS pharmacy chain, appear to have reached a truce this month during a long-delayed meeting with CVS officials.
They can deal with the fact that the St. Paul Public Schools face a $24 million budget deficit. But school clerical workers refuse to accept that they must pay more for their health insurance than the district?s highest-paid employees pay.
Transportation emerged as the most important problem residents face in Hennepin County?s 2004 Citizens Survey. Advocates hope that will translate into more support for mass transit.
Light rail enthusiasts who came to join December 4 festivities celebrating the completion of the Hiawatha light rail line (LRT) witnessed a bipartisan love-fest. With LRT ridership double projections, a new era of bipartisan support for transit may be here.
Day two of a strike by members of Laborers Local 563 who
work for the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) began like the
first day, with a pre-dawn picket line at MPHA offices on Washington Ave. N.