Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2007/12/page/3/)
As Congressman Keith Ellison and faith and community leaders listened, Hannon Security Services workers described an atmosphere of racial discrimination and mistreatment by the local security firm.
Service Employees International Union Local 26 has set up a memorial fund in remembrance of Fidel Sanchez-Flores, a window cleaner killed Wednesday in a fall at the IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis.
Chanting the slogan, "Our health, our state, our time," some 300 people rallied at Minneapolis City Hall Tuesday, then marched through the skyway system to call for affordable health care for all Minnesotans.
Saying Mike Ciresi "is the best candidate to beat Norm Coleman," AFSCME Council 65 endorsed him for U.S. Senate.
Joining a lengthening list of supporters among organized labor, the 180,000-member Amalgamated Transit Union endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Some 500 tellers and other white-collar, non-supervisory employees of U.S. Bank in Milwaukee County, voted overwhelmingly to affiliate with Wisconsin Council 48 of AFSCME.
Safety hazards that led to the deaths of 15 workers at a BP plant in Texas are widespread in the oil industry, a new study shows. The report came the same week as two workers were killed and another missing in two different accidents at Minnesota facilities.
The four candidates running for the DFL nomination to the U.S. Senate all back the Employee Free Choice Act and said Congress needs to go even farther to protect worker rights. With video