Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2006/04/page/3/)
Carving out a living behind the wheel, leaving your mark for generations, and the past and present realities of immigrant workers are among topics in this year’s Untold Stories labor history series.
With Governor Tim Pawlenty threatening to veto legislation providing more educational opportunities for immigrants, supporters are mobilizing for a final push to save the Dream Act.
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge 1833 members will conduct informational picketing on April 20 and 27 and May 4 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport “to fight for the integrity of our jobs and secure our future at Northwest Airlines.”
The General Board of the Minnesota AFL-CIO Wednesday recommended increasing the monthly payments that local unions make to the state by 25 cents per member to provide more staff to work on this fall’s elections and other issues.
In a hearing room packed with Dream Act supporters, the Minnesota House Ways and Means Committee approved an omnibus education bill including the measure that would provide more educational opportunities for immigrants.
School bus companies will have to provide paid sick leave for drivers if they expect to provide service in St. Paul beginning this fall.
As Minnesotans filed their income tax returns Monday, a coalition of community, faith and labor organizations called on Twin Cities hospitals to live up to their non-profit, tax-exempt status by providing affordable health insurance for employees, which they say would relieve taxpayers and improve the health of our communities.
Two documentaries ? one focusing on the lives of migrant workers, the other on human rights abuses in Colombia ? will be shown Friday, April 21, as part of the Labor & Community Film Series.
Just three days after compromise legislation on immigration foundered in the U.S. Senate over “guest worker” programs, the United Farm Workers moved to start solving the issue on their own.
Saying a Bush administration scheme to impose a contract, with pay cuts, on the nation’s 16,000 air traffic controllers could cause “a potential crisis” in U.S. skies, the National Consumers League joined the fight by the controllers’ union for a better pact.