Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2011/11/page/3/)
Ohio voters Tuesday resoundingly overturned the anti-worker agenda pushed by Gov. John Kasich, Republican state lawmakers and outside interest groups which took away the right of public employees to collectively bargain for a middle-class life.
The Occupy Wall Street Movement that began in New York Sept. 17 and has since spread like wildfire across the world has made an undeniable impact on the social and political climate of the Upper Midwest.
Twins catcher Joe Mauer has a union contract. The same can’t be said for electricians wiring a new service facility at Mauer Chevrolet in Inver Grove Heights, owned by Joe’s brother Billy Mauer.
Some 103 workers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport have joined UNITE HERE Local 17, while bartenders employed by the Historic Theatre Group in downtown Minneapolis also are seeking representation, the union reported.
Members of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 292 voted 64 percent in favor of a new two-year agreement with the National Electrical Contractors Association.
Elections for local offices and issues will be held across Minnesota on Tuesday, Nov. 8. With turnout expected to be light, every vote will count.
More than 100 Minnesotans from faith, labor and community groups rallied outside of the annual meeting of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Tuesday to demand that large banks and corporations pay their fair share of taxes, invest in good jobs, and fix the foreclosure crisis.
World leaders must pivot and focus the international economy – and its recovery – on getting workers into jobs, union leaders will tell international leaders meeting in Cannes, France.
American Crystal Sugar workers who have been locked out of their jobs since Aug. 1 are hopeful the company will listen to elected officials who are calling for them to return to the bargaining table.
Union members who have been locked out from American Crystal Sugar plants since the start of August rejected the company’s most recent offer in a vote Tuesday.