Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2006/12/)
In an interview with Workday Minnesota, SEIU President Andy Stern, perhaps America\’s most controversial labor leader, shares his views on a range of topics, from organizing and politics to class consciousness and the war in Iraq.
About 20 new members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 will celebrate the New Year with their first contract. The workers operate the BE Line bus routes, contracted to a private company by Metro Transit.
Sixty years ago St. Paul public school teachers became the first in the country to strike for better wages, improved working conditions and greater public commitment to their students’ education.
The violent struggle in the Mexican state of Oaxaca – where the brutal repression of a striking teachers union last June sparked a series of demonstrations, uprisings and, eventually, partial federal occupation – inspires a wide range of emotions among the teachers’ supporters.
After six years, labor ally Mark Dayton leaves the U.S. Senate just the way he came in: speaking frankly about the issues of the day and independently voting his conscience.
The United Steelworkers and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. have reached a tentative agreement to end an 11-week-old strike by 15,000 workers at 16 plants across North America.
Seven Catholic bishops in Minnesota, including Archbishop Harry Flynn of the archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, have issued a statement condemning the raid by federal immigration authorities in Worthington.
Injustice takes no holiday. Twenty Holiday Inn Express workers learned that lesson when, four days before Christmas, they were fired by new management at the hotel.
Twin Cities janitors are garnering the support of state and local officials in their effort to win a fair contract with companies that clean downtown buildings.
Nearly 100 workers joined AFSCME Council 5 this week, boosting the union\’s membership gains to 2,600 this year.