Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2008/01/page/4/)
The windchill was minus six degrees at noon Monday as about 20 members and staff of SEIU Local 26, some wearing ice skates, some wearing boots, played hockey on the ice at Centennial Lakes Park. Their presence sought to dramatize that workers at Hannon Security Services are "on thin ice" without access to affordable health care.
Saying the safety situation in the nation\’s skies — especially over Chicago, New York, Atlanta and Southern California — is dire, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association has declared a "controller emergency" in those four areas. And it is taking its campaign for safety in the skies to the public, the airlines and Capitol Hill.
A fire truck on loan from the Esko Fire Department to the flooded community of Rushford made the trip to southern Minnesota and back – thanks to unions and union contractors.
Former Austin resident Chet Jorgenson took the oath of office Friday as the new Statewide President of the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE), the second-largest state employee union.
The United Steelworkers will take their campaign to protest imports of lead-laden toys and other toxic products to the doorsteps of three members of Minnesota\’s Congressional delegation Wednesday.
Minneapolis teachers will vote Friday through Monday on a tentative contract settlement containing new provisions for transferring and selecting staff.
Recently, the Minnesota Chicano Latino Affairs Council (CLAC) issued a statement sharply at odds with the immigration plan put forth by Governor Tim Pawlenty.
Governor Tim Pawlenty\’s plan to crack down on undocumented immigrants drew immediate condemnation from labor and community activists who participate in the Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network.
Ignoring the recommendations of a state agency largely filled by his appointees, Governor Tim Pawlenty is seeking harsh state action against undocumented immigrants.
On the heels of recent reports indicating more than 1 million Minnesotans are living without adequate insurance, a new study finds that private security officers in the Twin Cities are almost universally without affordable, employer-sponsored family health care.