Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2006/04/)
Gray, rainy weather added to the somber tone of Workers Memorial Day ceremonies in the Twin Cities Friday.At events outside the Capitol, at MnDOT offices, and at a construction site in Minneapolis, union members and elected officials spoke of the never-ending need to make workplaces safer. Unfortunately, they pointed out, trends are going the other way. Deaths on the job rose in recent years in both the nation and in Minnesota.
The Twin Cities Daily Planet, an online news source
featuring the best of the community press plus the work of citizen-reporters and independent journalists, will launch May 1 with a full complement of local news, features, columns, and interactive community forums.
A new report released April 24 by the AFL-CIO says that Minnesota’s working families are being squeezed by stagnant incomes and soaring costs. Minnesota AFL-CIO President Ray Waldron said this year’s rising fuel costs are likely to negate any pay increases that workers might receive.
Hospital workers deliver a ?reject petition? to the attorney representing five Twin Cities hospital systems in contract negotiations.
Building Trades unions are leading a push for a state investigation into what they say is a growing, underground cash economy in Minnesota.
Lauri Anderson?s friend died of pneumonia. But her friend didn?t really die from pneumonia, Anderson said; her friend died from not having health insurance.
Every day in the United States, an average of 16 workers are fatally injured on the job. Every day, more than 11,000 are injured. Those numbers don’t include workers who contract fatal diseases from exposure to chemicals or other harmful substances at work.
Union Bank & Trust will celebrate its 30th anniversary and recent remodeling with an open house April 26-28
Combined efforts by unions and management are raising safety to a new level at Flint Hills Resources’ Pine Bend Refinery.
Building Trades unions plan an increasingly visible campaign targeting dubious contractor practices in commercial and residential construction in downtown Minneapolis. As part of the campaign, community, faith and labor groups will lobby at the state Capitol Wednesday, April 26.