Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2007/06/)
As the better than 300 Iron Range residents filed into the Mountain Iron Community Center Thursday night for a legislative hearing, they were able to take a thick "Cancer in Minnesota, 2003: Preliminary Report" off a table at the door. But in three hours of testimony by over a dozen miners and mining widows, it was apparent they know the score and are tired of studies.
UNITE HERE Local 17 called a boycott of Capitol cafeterias after the state of Minnesota awarded the food service contract to a company that won\’t recognize the employees\’ union and is laying off workers.
Community, faith and union leaders gathered Thursday at the Wal-Mart store in St. Paul\’s Midway neighborhood to denounce the retailer\’s poor civil rights record.
Public employees held a solidarity picnic on the Capitol grounds as negotiators for their unions and the state of Minnesota entered the final push to reach contract settlements.
Nicole Masika is working a second job to pay all her bills. Ramona Cunningham drives a 10-year-old car and cuts corners whenever possible in her family budget.
Chuck Lindberg, the last survivor of the historic flagraising at Iwo Jima in World War II and a union electrician, died Sunday.
The Employee Free Choice Act fell short of passage Tuesday when advocates in the U.S. Senate failed to stop opponents\’ threatened filibuster. But unions and their allies pledged to continue the campaign.
Workers at the state of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota plan events Wednesday to build solidarity for fair contracts.
When Super Target opens along University Avenue in St. Paul\’s Midway neighborhood July 29, the store\’s retail employees likely will not have union representation.
As the U.S. Senate prepared to vote on the Employee Free Choice Act, AFSCME members – including dozens from Minnesota – journeyed to the Capitol to back this important labor law reform legislation.