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Happy New Year from Workday Minnesota!
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Best wishes for economic security, good health and peace on earth in the coming year.
Janitors fill Minneapolis skyways to call for fair contract
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Joined by supporters, hundreds of Twin Cities janitors marched through downtown Minneapolis skyways Wednesday to demand a fair settlement with cleaning contractors.
Union leaders lukewarm about Senate health care bill
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Union leaders were lukewarm, at best, to the Senate’s version of health care that lawmakers passed on Christmas Eve.
Support Twin Cities janitors on Wednesday
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Twin Cities janitors, fighting to maintain full-time jobs and to institute “green job” practices, will hold a solidarity demonstration Wednesday, Dec. 30, in downtown Minneapolis.
Somber reading at governor’s residence for thousands slated to lose health care
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The group gathered at Governor Tim Pawlenty’s official residence Tuesday weren’t offering Christmas carols, but rather a more somber holiday message – a list of Minnesotans slated to lose health coverage due to Pawlenty’s budget cuts.
Frustrated AFL-CIO leaders ponder pulling health care support
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The AFL-CIO Executive Council, frustrated by the Senate’s repeated retreats on health care, seriously considered pulling the labor federation’s support for health care revision, one report said last week.
Janitors plan solidarity meeting Dec. 21
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Twin Cities janitors represented by Service Employees International Union Local 26 invite other union members and supporters to join them at a solidarity meeting Monday.
Trumka blasts Senate health bill as favoring insurance companies
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The health care bill being considered by the U.S. Senate is inadequate and too tilted toward the insurance industry, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Thursday.
Minnesota law failing to improve meatpacking safety, survey finds
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A two-year-old law intended to improve safety for meatpacking workers has failed and conditions in many plants have actually gotten worse, according to a survey by the Human Rights Program at the University of Minnesota.
Education Minnesota offers option for federal education dollars
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As the state of Minnesota puts the final touches on its entry in the federal Race to the Top competition, Education Minnesota announced its own proposal for using federal dollars to more directly support great teaching and learning in the classroom.