More than 100,000 in Madison to support worker rights
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More than 100,000 people packed the area around Wisconsin’s Capitol Saturday to continue a month-long campaign against Governor Scott Walker’s attack on worker rights.
Skills courses offered on immigration, steward training
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The University of Minnesota Labor Education Service is offering two skills courses this spring on immigration issues and basic steward training.
Teamsters’ Secretary-Treasurer Keegel to retire
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Tom Keegel, 68, secretary-treasurer of the Teamsters and longtime former head of its Twin Cities-based Joint Council 32, will retire at the end of his term this year after a 52-year union career.
Policy
Public and private sector workers more productive, but not getting paid for it
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Opponents of working families and their unions have tried to pit public workers against those in the private sector, by fomenting an internal class warfare centered on disparate wages and benefits.
Workers gather in Madison to protest votes restricting their rights
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People heard the news Wednesday night and decided they needed to be at the Wisconsin state Capitol Thursday: Senate Republicans had passed a bill to curtail public bargaining rights of most public employees.
Minnesotans travel through ‘class warfare zones’
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Minnesota labor leader Mark Froemke and Writers Union member Ted Fiskevold are traveling to Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio to document the attack on working people in the United States.
Protests mount after Wisconsin Republicans ram through anti-worker legislation
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Thousands of people occupied the state Capitol in Madison Wednesday night after Republicans in the Senate rammed through legislation stripping teachers, state employees and most other public workers of their collective bargaining rights.
War on public employee unions is an assault on women
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Quick quiz about what conservative ideologues hope to accomplish in their war on public employee unions.
Photos 3: Wisconsin protest signs
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The thousands of people demonstrating in Wisconsin are using signs — many of them home-made — to communicate their message.
Photos 2: Wisconsin protest signs
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The thousands of people demonstrating in Wisconsin are using signs — many of them home-made — to communicate their message.