Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2012/02/)
Armed with new – and disturbing – evidence gathered from the front lines of hospitals across the state, Minnesota nurses introduced legislation aimed at addressing patient safety through adequate staffing levels.
The latest Job Vacancy Survey from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development shows that 161,000 unemployed Minnesotans are competing for 50,000 unfilled jobs.
Eight locked-out workers’ “Journey for Justice” from Fargo, North Dakota, to Findlay, Ohio, concluded Monday with a roundtable discussion about the recent wave of corporate attacks on workers.
In yet another mark of the AFL-CIO’s new emphasis on supporting low-wage workers – often those unprotected by labor law – in their campaigns to organize, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka spent a two-day swing through California lauding car wash workers, home health care aides, domestic workers and day laborers for their success in self-organizing.
Organized labor and its allies lauded Democratic President Barack Obama’s demand for corporate tax reform, but called his plan too weak.
The University of Minnesota Labor Education Service has produced videos documenting the first legs of the “Journey for Justice” by locked-out workers at American Crystal Sugar and Cooper Tire.
A year after the citizens’ uprising in Wisconsin, the Twin Cities Labor Chorus holds its first out-of-state performance Saturday, in Stockholm, Wis.
A “Journey for Justice” to draw attention to the lockouts at Cooper Tire Co. in Findlay, Ohio, and American Crystal Sugar in the Red River Valley may turn into a partial celebration as the Steelworkers announced a tentative agreement with Cooper Tire.
Teresa Brown and Becki Jacobson live nearly 1,000 miles apart, but they share a bond forged by adversity. Both are taking a stand against employers who have locked them out of their jobs.
Hundreds of union members, their families and supporters rallied Wednesday to protest the lockout of some 1,300 workers by American Crystal Sugar Company. A delegation of labor and community leaders delivered a petition signed by more than 33,000 people to the company’s headquarters.