Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2004/12/page/3/)
With temperatures in single digits, Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) workers took up picket signs and began a strike in early morning darkness Tuesday. The walkout comes after eight months of negotiation and two months of mediation.
The Hennepin County Board, meeting Tuesday, approved and sent to the state Legislature a proposal to establish a “public benefit corporation” to take over direct management of Hennepin County Medical Center.
The first installment of an online archive of the Minneapolis Labor Review now is available to the public by visiting www.minneapolisunions.org
Historian Dave Riehle offers an analysis of the 2004 election that, free of punditry, offers an optimistic picture for organized labor.
Five hundred people who care about the future of the labor movement gathered at the City University of New York on Dec. 2-3. But they agreed on little about its prospects, except for two points: The movement needs to stop shrinking and start growing, and that George W. Bush is bad news.
Service and maintenance workers employed by the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, facing a possible strike, will rally Tuesday, Dec. 14, outside the Housing Authority.
Continuing to allow fewer and fewer media conglomerates to own more and more radio and television stations makes corporate profits a higher priority than American democracy, speakers told a Federal Communications Commission field hearing Dec. 9.
The real divide in the United States is not between so-called “red” and “blue” states, but between the wealthy corporations who control our lives and the rest of us, author Thomas Frank says.
The Chinese government has cancelled, at extremely short notice, a meeting of union and business leaders aimed at getting multinational companies to follow international standards to guarantee Chinese workers? rights.
Working families and members of civil rights, community and religious groups are highlighting the freedom to form unions, as they celebrate International Human Rights Day Dec. 10, the anniversary of the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.