Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2006/12/page/2/)
Twin Cities janitors will rally Thursday at the Hennepin County Government Center to call attention to the burden on public services when employers don’t provide full-time jobs with good health care.
United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1161 has set up a fund to aid the workers and families affected by the Dec. 12 raid at the Swift Co. meatpacking plant.
A group of union and faith leaders pressed U.S. Senator Norm Coleman to stop immigration raids, release people who have been detained and support comprehensive federal reform.
The Defense Department\’s civilian unionized workers are challenging proposed regulations that would gut their rights on the job.
When she heard the phone message, Barb Kremer didn\’t think twice about what to do.
Outraged by the raids in Worthington and five other cities, immigrant rights advocates will hold a vigil and rally Monday at the office of U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, R-Minn.
It\’s not normal for cartons of canned vegetables and packages of disposable diapers to be piled high near Mike Potter\’s desk. But these are not normal days for the president of United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1161.
Family members continue to seek information on their loved ones, while the community copes with the sudden loss of hundreds of residents following the Dec. 12 raid by immigration officers at the Swift Co. meatpacking plant.
Twin Cities Wobblies will host a Bread and Roses workers\’ social on Saturday, Dec. 16, in Minneapolis.
In 1947, Woody Guthrie wrote a song about the crash of a plane carrying Mexican immigrant farm workers back to the border.