Selling cookies for health care coverage

To dramatize how their coverage has become unaffordable, hospital workers held a “Bake Sale for Health Care” Tuesday outside Fairview Riverside hospital. Workers also plan a candlelight vigil Wednesday evening at Fairview Southdale to call on hospitals to return to negotiations.

Rally Thursday to support Pioneer Press

City and state leaders will join employees of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and supporters at a rally Thursday, April 6, to ensure the 157-year-old paper remains a strong asset of Minnesota’s capital city, despite its pending sale.

Rampant worker abuses in Katrina-hit area, group says

Safety problems, wage-and-hour violations and other worker abuses are rampant in the Gulf Coast area as workers and residents try to recover from the billions of dollars in damages caused by Hurricane Katrina late last August, quickly followed by Hurricane Rita in September.