Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2007/02/page/4/)
When the curtain goes up this week for the Minnesota Opera\’s world premiere of Grapes of Wrath, union Stagehands hope to hear "oos" and "aahs" when the audience sees the set they\’ve built.
Adult, college-age and teenage students packed a small lecture hall in St. Paul\’s Humboldt High School Monday to hear Oscar Olivera, an unlikely hero of the 2000 water-rights uprising in Cochabamba, Bolivia, talk about globalization.
Linda Merfeld is a nurse and a union activist. And in a way, she\’s lucky: She hasn\’t been fired yet. The Employee Free Choice Act would protect her, and others like her.
Joined by the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the union representing Twin Cities janitors Monday announced a tentative contract settlement that addresses concerns about health care and full-time jobs.
"Spanish for Construction Business Agents and Organizers" is the title of a new class offered by the University of MInnesota Labor Education Service starting this month.
A new organization, HOLA (Hispanos Organizing Latino America) will hold an organizing conference Feb. 15, open to all interested union members and community activists.
Pursuing his determination to create "free trade" pacts without worker rights, President George W. Bush has asked the Democratic-run Congress to renew his "fast track" Trade Promotion Authority. He got a cautious reaction from Congress and outspoken opposition from union leaders.
Ordered back to the bargaining table Friday by the National Mediation Board, the union representing Northwest Airlines flight attendants proposed a contract that would give back significantly less than the $195 million in concessions ordered by a bankruptcy judge last June.
The U.S. Senate passed legislation Thursday to increase the federal minimum wage, but coupled the measure with tax breaks for business.