Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2007/08/)
AFSCME members at the University of Minnesota are enlisting the help of lawmakers, students, other university workers and the community to build pressure for a fair settlement and avoid a strike. In the meantime, Teamsters Local 320 announced it had reached a tentative agreement covering its members at the university.
The number of fatal injuries on the job dropped slightly in 2006, with 5,703 workers killed on the job last year, compared to 5,734 the year before, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
The University of Minnesota and four local unions return to the bargaining table Wednesday for the first negotiations since workers authorized their leadership to call a strike that would impede the start of fall semester classes.
The United Transportation Union has become the first union to issue a presidential endorsement, backing Sen. Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, the International Association of Fire Fighters announced it would make an endorsement Wednesday.
The Carlton County Central Labor Body will hold its 88th Annual Cloquet Labor Day Celebration from Friday, Aug. 31, through Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 3.
Union workers from Minnesota\’s most prolific paper recycling plant will take center stage at the Great Minnesota Get-Together, which kicked off Aug. 23 and will run through Labor Day.
The Community Strike Support Committee will lead a rally Thursday to support University of Minnesota workers who face a possible strike.
AFSCME Council 5 is seeking an organizer and the Minnesota Nurses Association is hiring a labor relations specialist. View the notices in our job openings section.
As part of a campaign called "Iraq Summer," town hall meetings will be held Tuesday in St. Paul, Minnetonka and St. Cloud to discuss the Iraq War.
Saying the nation\’s unemployment insurance system is outmoded and puts so many obstacles in the way of workers that only 35 percent of jobless get aid, a bipartisan group of senators unveiled a $7 billion modernization plan.