Toy drive provides holiday cheer to locked-out families
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Families of the 1,300 workers locked out of their jobs by American Crystal Sugar are having a happier holiday thanks to the generosity expressed through “Operating Christmas Solidarity.”
Policy
Wal-Mart chairman named ‘Scrooge of the Year’
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He beat out some tough competition, but Rob Walton, chairman of Wal-Mart’s board of directors, is the top vote getter in the 11th annual Jobs with Justice “Scrooge of the Year” election.
Workers ratify pact, back on job at Polar Tank Trailer
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Workers are back on the job after ratifying an agreement to end a 19-day strike at Polar Tank Trailer.
Policy
Citizens protest huge year-end bonuses for bank executives
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Despite a down economy and millions out of work, the nation’s largest banks are getting ready to hand out end-of-year bonus checks to their CEOs, CFOs and other top executives. And this year, total bonuses and compensation are expected to be even higher than last year.
Major Boeing case ends with vote on new contract
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The National Labor Relations Board’s controversial case against Boeing, which set off an uproar from big business and Congressional Republicans, ended quietly after the Machinists voted for a new pact with the aircraft giant.
AFTRA board, members to vote on three-year pact with networks
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The governing board of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists will vote Jan. 28 on a three-year pact that union negotiators reached with four of the nation’s television networks, the union announced. Assuming board approval, AFTRA members will then vote on it.
Community
END OF AN ERA: Workday Minnesota coverage of the closing of the Twin Cities Assembly Plant
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Ford Motor Company\’s Twin Cities Assembly Plant, which opened in 1925, closed its doors Friday, Dec. 16.
END OF AN ERA: Local 879 was a leader for labor
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Local 879, which has represented workers at the Twin Cities Assembly Plant since Ford Motor Company was organized in 1941, leaves a legacy of accomplishments for the United Auto Workers and Minnesota’s labor movement.
Community
END OF AN ERA: A culture of camaraderie will be lost
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Like members of a family, employees of the Twin Cities Assembly Plant played jokes on each other and called each other by nicknames.
Community
END OF AN ERA: Generosity of Ford workers will be missed
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When counting what will be missed when the Twin Cities Assembly Plant closes its doors, high on the list is the generosity of its workers – and the millions of dollars and countless volunteer hours they contributed to various causes over the decades the plant was in operation.