Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2010/04/page/2/)
The National Association of Letter Carriers – shut out along with other postal worker unions from a Congressional hearing on the Postal Service’s plan to eliminate Saturday delivery and cut jobs – warned lawmakers against stampeding to endorse the agency’s ideas.
Service Employees President Andy Stern announced he will resign as head of the 2.2-million-member union. He set no date but an SEIU spokeswoman said he will leave “within a month.”
Almost 60 janitors had lost their jobs due to a decision by HealthPartners clinics to switch from a union janitorial company to a non-union company, SDQ, the workers’ union said. With video.
According to state records, the man who allegedly called AFSCME Council 5 and left a series of obscenity-laced voicemail messages with an invitation to Thursday’s Tea Party event, has a long history as a vendor with the state’s court system.
Striking workers at Fabcon, Inc., joined by more than 100 supporters at a solidarity rally Thursday, vowed to fight company efforts to roll back wages. With video.
The “eyes of America are on Detroit and southeast Michigan,” say the organizers of a major gathering of activists that will take place there in late June.
The guy on the billboard looks like he’s had too many jelly beans. Apparently, he’s not the only one who’s bloated. So is the billboard’s misleading claim about “metro area government employees” who make over $100,000 a year.
A temporary worker hired as a strikebreaker at Fabcon’s Savage manufacturing plant suffered burns from exposure to lime Monday and sought medical treatment in the emergency room at the Fairview University hospital.
Last-minute tax filers will be greeted by members of AFSCME Council 5 on Tax Day, April 15, at post offices in Anoka, Bemidji, Brainerd, Cambridge, Duluth and Minneapolis. Union volunteers will ask taxpayers a simple question: “Are you tired of paying more so the rich can pay less?”
After a week of being locked out of work, after daily picket lines and civil disobedience, window cleaners in Service Employees International Union Local 26 won a new contract, the union announced.