Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2005/09/page/3/)
Minnesota Nurses Association members will provide important perspective regarding allegations of unsafe patient care at the Minnesota Veterans Home in Minneapolis, during testimony before legislative committees Wednesday.
The Pipefitters union unveiled a new, state-of-the art Journeyman and Apprentice Training School, built mostly with donated labor and materials.
Donald P. Early, former president of the Minneapolis Central
Labor Union Council (CLUC), is being remembered for his strong commitment to the labor movement and ability to bring people together.
Two paramedics from California, including the chief shop steward of a Service Employees local in Oakland, are painting a harrowing picture of mistreatment of New Orleans residents by local sheriffs and other law enforcement officers in the wake of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
The AFL-CIO Hurricane Katrina Relief Center in Pearl, Miss., is appealing for specific supplies in bulk for hurricane victims, says federation relief coordinator Judy Parkins.
In an indication the two sections of the union movement can still work together, the Communications Workers and Teamsters plan to jointly represent reservations, ticket and gate agents at US Airways and America West, which are preparing to merge.
Minnesota citizens need to lead America in a renewable energy revolution that rejects unsustainable policies favoring fossil fuels, Congresswoman Betty McCollum said in a keynote speech Saturday at the St. Paul Labor Center.
Contract talks resume Monday, Sept. 19, between the University of Minnesota and AFSCME locals representing 3,300 clerical, technical and health care workers.
For a quarter century Northland Poster Collective has strategized with unions and social justice organizations and designed and produced posters, buttons, tee shirts, mugs, and other organizing materials to advance a more peaceful, just, sustainable and witty world.
The monthly program of the St. Paul Labor Speakers Club will focus on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the lack of response by the Bush administration.