Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2011/10/page/2/)
John Nemo, Director of PR and Social Media for the Minnesota Nurses Association, shares strategies – featuring real-life examples – of how Labor Unions can successfully leverage Social Media to engage members, impact contract negotiations and create content that shapes public opinion and drives mainstream media coverage.
The Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition will celebrate 20 years of fair trade advocacy with a dinner Nov. 4 featuring farm labor leader Baldemar Velasquez. Tickets are available.
The School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota offers trainings in working with hazardous materials and hazardous waste operations and emergency response.
As people mobilized in the streets of Minneapolis to demand that Wall Street be accountable for creating the economic crisis, SEIU Local 26 President Javier Morillo-Alicea was thousands of miles away – hearing a similar message in Sun City, South Africa.
Minneapolis Building Trades members are questioning how a facility associated with Hennepin County Medical Center – one of Minnesota’s leading publicly operated health institutions – can be built by a California company using non-union, out-of-state workers.
The movement to hold Wall Street accountable for tanking the U.S. economy spread to downtown Saint Paul, as more than 100 delegates to the Minnesota Nurses Association’s convention marched Tuesday to raise awareness of the union’s plan to “heal” Main Street with a tax on Wall Street.
Minnesota construction workers – who face the bleakest job outlook in the nation – will protest Wednesday at the site of a multi-million-dollar facility associated with Hennepin County Medical Center that is being built with out-of-state labor.
Wisconsin residents, including many labor unions, plan to start collecting signatures on Nov. 15 to recall Republican Governor Scott Walker, which gives them a 60-day window to achieve that goal.
The free trade agreements with Korea, Colombia and Panama that Congress passed last week will destroy jobs across the United States for years to come, the Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition said.
Thousands of Minnesotans expressed their outrage and frustration with the U.S. economy in an unprecedented series of actions, from roundtables and pickets to a massive march through downtown Minneapolis. With video.