Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2005/10/)
Backed by a coalition of labor unions, faith groups, and community organizations, a proposed living wage ordinance for the City of Minneapolis today passed the City Council?s Ways and Means Committee and now heads for a full City Council vote Friday.
What’s scarier than a Halloween goblin? Not having health care! That was the message at demonstrations outside Wal-Mart stores across the nation Friday, including one in Bloomington.
Political pressure from moderate Republican representatives, concerned about re-election fights next year, forced GOP President George W. Bush to restore the Davis-Bacon Act’s prevailing wage rules for Hurricane Katrina-clobbered areas.
It’s bad enough that 180 people will be out of a job when Diamond Products shuts its manufacturing plant in downtown St. Paul.
What makes it worse, some workers say, is that Mayor Randy Kelly seems more interested in the redevelopment potential of the site than he does in keeping good manufacturing jobs in the city.
The recent National Labor Relations Board complaint against Cintas, charging the nation’s largest uniform and commercial laundry with violating federal labor law at 19 plants nationwide, is unusual in both its size and scope.
Two unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO are trying to oust the independent union that represents flight attendants at Northwest Airlines.
A proposed living wage ordinance for Minneapolis will get its first public hearing Monday, Oct. 31, before the City Council’s Ways and Means Committee.
The AFL-CIO, two SEIU locals and allies including the NAACP will stage a mass rally in Baton Rouge Oct. 29 to blast worker abuse in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. They will demand that local residents in the hurricane-damaged areas get the first call on jobs — and that they be well-paying jobs.
Nearly five years after a nonunion carhauler took jobs from about 50 Teamsters’ drivers at a railhead here, two union carhaulers have regained more than half the work.
Unions are challenging a proposal by the state Department of Labor and Industry that could change how wage scales are calculated for Minnesota’s 8,500 registered apprentices.