Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2011/10/page/3/)
After lengthy and impassioned debate, AFSCME convention delegates voted overwhelmingly to “train and mobilize” union members to “vote no” on any ballot initiative in 2012 that restricts rights or restricts revenue for public services.
Unemployed workers and members of faith, labor and community groups gathered for a vigil Monday evening, hoping against hope that Congress would act to create jobs. Late Tuesday, however, the U.S. Senate refused to take a vote on President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act.
Hundreds of people carrying giant red foam fingers like those waved by fans at football games marched through Minneapolis’s financial district Tuesday pointing the finger at big banks, corporations and financial institutions who have sent the U.S. economy into a near death spiral.
Space is still available in Saturday\’s course on "Social Networking Skills for Union Members." In response to demand, the Labor Education Service has added two new social media classes in late October and early November.
As more and more Americans question how they are benefitting in today’s economy, Twin Cities community, faith and labor groups start a week of action, including a march and rally Friday to “Save the American Dream.”
“We Are One” has to be more than a slogan – it has to be a way of life for working people, AFSCME Council 5 President Mike Buesing told more than 600 delegates on the first day of Council 5’s convention in Duluth.
This past week, the White House formally introduced the Korea, Panama, and Colombia trade agreements for “fast track” Congressional approval.
Hundreds gathered on the plaza of the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis Friday, joining the nationwide movement to hold Corporate America accountable for an economy that has left the majority of Americans struggling to just get by.
Claiming to represent “the 99 percent” of Americans whom the economy is failing, protesters took over a park in New York’s Financial District two and a half weeks ago. They began staging rallies against corporate tax loopholes, income inequality and CEO compensation. And they haven’t left since.
The six AFSCME locals representing Hennepin County employees are beginning joint contract negotiations with the County.