Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2009/12/page/2/)
The elegant statue of a woman, holding a lily – symbol of rebirth – in one hand and gesturing with delicate flower petals in the other, stands in St. Paul’s Calvary Cemetery.
While expressing hope for an agreement at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, the Blue Green Alliance said Congressional action is key to reaching a long-term, international plan to address the challenges facing the planet.
A nationwide campaign to organize 40,000 airport security screeners includes workers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, where union organizers and supporters are taking part in a week of solidarity actions.
The AFL-CIO’s regional labor federations are sponsoring programs to help unemployed workers and other families in need this holiday season.
Minnesota unions presented members of the state’s Congressional delegation with several goals for health care reform: Include a public alternative to private insurance, cover everyone, control costs and focus on prevention.
With the Senate’s version of health care revision apparently going from bad to worse for workers, unionists on Thursday rallied and lobbied against one of the worst ideas in it: Taxing their health benefits.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said the federation will work “hard and non-stop” for quick congressional approval of the job-creation proposals announced Tuesday by President Barack Obama, even though unions are dubious about one of them, a tax credit.
Saying the state needs good, family-supporting jobs, the Minnesota AFL-CIO and the Minnesota Building & Construction Trades Council have announced their support of PolyMet Mining Company’s project in northeastern Minnesota.
General Motors and Chrysler, which took billions of dollars in federal loan guarantees with the promise to preserve U.S. jobs, are instead threatening thousands of union jobs – those of drivers who haul new vehicles on their huge trucks from factory to dealerships – the Teamsters say.
After enduring a yearlong lockout, employees of Progress Casting are headed back to work with the sale of the company to new ownership.