Judge poised to issue landmark injunction for ‘Rochester 19’
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A federal judge is expected to rule this week on a landmark injunction to reinstate the "Rochester 19," union workers fired by a Rochester hotel.
Environment
Rock-Tenn plant seeks new energy source
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After you\’ve finished reading the Union Advocate newspaper and tossed it into your recycling bin, chances are good it will end up, in one form or another, at the Rock-Tenn plant in St. Paul\’s Midway neighborhood, where workers have been turning wastepaper into cardboard for 100 years.
Schaubach ends 40-year career in teaching, union leadership
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Judy Schaubach\’s career in education began at a time when women were still forced to quit teaching halfway through their pregnancies – and ends with her union – Education Minnesota – having become one of the most influential organizations in the state.
‘Push week’ for state contract talks
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Some 30,000 state employees are mobilizing as contract talks between unions and the state of Minnesota reach a critical stage.
Legislators call on health commissioner to resign
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Legislators are demanding the state\’s top public health official resign in response to findings that her department kept secret critical data regarding taconite miners\’ risk of contracting a rare form of cancer.
Organizing
Organizing efforts build at Jennie-O
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Efforts to form a union at the Jennie-O Turkey Store in Faribault intensified this week after the National Labor Relations Board found the company guilty of unfair labor practices.
Pipe Trades to ‘turn up the heat’ on Holiday Inn Express
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Members of Minnesota Pipe Trades unions, in Rochester for their state convention, will "turn up the heat" on the Holiday Inn Express with a demonstration Thursday afternoon.
Community
Union members to march in Pride parade
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Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender union members and friends will staff a booth and march in the parade at this weekend\’s GLBT Pride Festival in Minneapolis.
Organizing
Window cleaners seek union representation
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Workers who hang from skyscrapers, cleaning windows on some of the area\’s largest and tallest buildings, are seeking union representation.
Steelworkers seek investigation into delayed release of cancer study
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Steelworkers District 11 Director Bob Bratulich is demanding to know why findings of mesothelioma in Iron Range miners were kept secret – and who in state government was involved in the delay.