Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2010/10/)
U.S. labor law “has been turned inside out, protecting the powerful rather than the powerless” in the 75 years since the National Labor Relations Act was enacted, a top labor historian says.
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The Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition recently held its Second Annual Member Assembly, where it presented Congressman Keith Ellison, D-5th District, with its 2010 Fair Trade Leadership Award.
The first classes of the GreenPOWER (Partnership of Workforce and Employer Resources) training program targeting workers at Ford Motor Company’s Twin Cities Assembly Plant in St. Paul will take place on Friday, Oct. 29.
Two hours before Twin Cities Public Television broadcasts a high-profile gubernatorial debate from its studios downtown St. Paul, union broadcast technicians, locked in negotiations with the station since February, will stage a rally in nearby Mears Park.
Nearly 200 Registered Nurses at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa, have been forced to issue a formal petition to the National Labor Relations Board after hospital officials refused to address and honor their request to join the Minnesota Nurses Association.
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the start of contract negotiations between LSG Sky Chefs, the world’s largest airline catering company, and UNITE-HERE, the union representing 6,600 Sky Chefs employees nationwide.
Ground workers and flight attendants at Delta Air Lines are currently voting on whether they wish to be represented by a union. A new Web video documents an Oct. 17th rally where workers spoke about why they want a voice on the job.
“Jobs” seems to be the watchword of this year’s election campaigns, but few people are talking about why millions of Americans are unemployed. In Minnesota, the Fair Trade Coalition is putting a spotlight on a major cause: unfair trade agreements.
The Minnesota AFL-CIO has released its 2010 Legislative Report, scoring Minnesota House and Minnesota Senate members on key votes involving job creation, tax fairness, a balanced approach to the state budget deficit, worker protection, and fair elections.