Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2010/11/page/2/)
Labor leaders joined union contractors, Ramsey County officials and representatives of veterans-service organizations for a Veterans Day ceremony outside Birmingham Place, a formerly vacant property purchased and rehabilitated to house returning soldiers as they transition into civilian life.
Hundreds of workers and allies marched a three-mile route through South Minneapolis Saturday, stopping at Lunds, Supervalu, Cub Foods, and Target to demand fair wages and safe working conditions for the cleaners of retail stores.
Workers who face layoffs and wage freezes at Minnesota state colleges and universities are blasting the MnSCU system for paying more than $400,000 in bonuses to administrators.
Seventeen warehouse and delivery workers at St. Paul-based Anchor Paper went on strike at 5 p.m. Tuesday after voting to reject the company’s final contract offer.
Retail cleaning workers in the Twin Cities have seen their wages and working conditions deteriorate severely over the last decade. On Saturday several cleaning workers will march with community allies in Minneapolis, calling on prominent retailers to commit to reversing that trend.
The Labor Education Service, which publishes Workday Minnesota, won three awards in this year’s competition sponsored by the International Labor Communications Association. In all, Minnesota’s labor media won eight awards.
Ballots will be counted Wednesday in the election to determine whether 21,000 flight attendants at Delta Air Lines will be represented by a union.
America’s voters are angry about the economy and the lack of jobs, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Wednesday morning during a discussion at the National Journal’s “The Day After” conference. And if Republicans don’t listen to what the voters were saying, they will be thrown out in 2012.
If organized labor’s predictions hold true, Tuesday’s election results amount to a train wreck for Minnesota’s workers.
Flight attendants at Delta Air Lines have voted against representation by a union, in results announced Wednesday by the National Mediation Board.