Workers deliver message to downtown building owners
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Donning smocks that said, “Magical elves don’t clean your offices – janitors with families do,” Twin Cities janitors rallied Thursday on Peavey Plaza.
Community
Vigil at Midway Wal-Mart Thursday
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As part of a nationwide campaign focusing on Wal-Mart over the holiday season, local citizens, community activists, and faith-based leaders will hold a candlelight vigil Thursday at the Wal-Mart store in St. Paul\’s Midway neighborhood.
Union, community leaders condemn raids
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Immigrant workers are staying home and some are seeking shelter at churches following Tuesday\’s surprise raid by federal authorities at the Swift Co. meatpacking plant, union and community leaders report. Meanwhile, several Twin Cities organizations are mobilizing to offer support.Video clips from Worthington, Friday Dec 16:Clip 1 4mb Windows media file (1:43)Clip 2 3mb Windows media file (1:16)Clip 3 (en español) 2mb Windows media file (:43)Wednesday\’s clip (2mb)
Janitors rally Thursday on Peavey Plaza
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Twin Cities janitors will rally Thursday to call on downtown Minneapolis building owners to follow the lead of building owners in Houston by supporting full-time jobs and better health care for janitors and their families.
Meatpacking plants raided; rights advocates urge phone calls
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Immigration authorities have detained an undisclosed number of workers at Swift meatpacking plants in Worthington, Minn., and five other states, prompting the United Food & Commercial Workers to seek a federal injunction to stop the raids. Immigrant rights advocates have launched a call-in campaign to Congress.
Register now for winter-spring labor education courses
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Winter-spring course offerings by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service include Contract Negotiations, Creative Organizing, Public Sector Labor Law and Labor History.
Janitors march in Holidazzle Parade
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Janitors who clean downtown office buildings marched in Saturday\’s Holidazzle Parade.
Pioneer Press is target of Save Journalism Day rally
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A rally Monday outside the Pioneer Press called attention to the danger that newspaper cuts are creating for democracy.
Janitors to rally, march in Holidazzle Parade
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With contract talks at a standstill, Twin Cities janitors will rally Saturday and march in the Holidazzle Parade through downtown Minneapolis.
Organizing
It may be cold, but Cintas campaign is heating up
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For more than three years, workers at Cintas Corp. have been trying to organize a union, and for more than three years, management has tried many tactics – some of them illegal – to stop them from exercising their rights.