Community
May Day demonstrations focus on immigration reform
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May 1 is International Workers Day. Demonstrations are planned in St. Paul and Duluth to celebrate solidarity and call for comprehensive reform of the nation’s immigration polices.
Policy
State minimum wage bill headed to House floor
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An amendment adopted by the House Ways and Means Committee stirred up new debate to the already controversial minimum wage bill, giving House Republicans more reasons for opposing it as the bill heads to the House Floor.
Workers Memorial Day spotlights deaths, injuries on the job
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The food on your dining table comes at a particularly high price, not in dollars and cents, but in lives.
Denise Specht elected president of Education Minnesota
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Delegates to the Education Minnesota Representative Convention have elected Denise Specht as president of the 70,000-member educators union.
Government
Unions denounce corporate ad campaign against Dayton plan
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MAPE, the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, and AFSCME Council 5 denounced the corporate-backed “United for Jobs” initiative as a misleading and deceptive paid advertising campaign.
Policy
Minnesota’s pay equity laws have bridged wage gap for women
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Fifty years after Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, women still make less than men. Except in Minnesota. For public employees, there is no pay gap. It didn’t happen by accident.
Policy
Pay equity changed lives
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For women who got pay equity raises, it made a huge difference – then and now.
Policy
Pay equity’s success remains fragile, underappreciated
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Despite its achievements, pay equity didn’t accomplish everything supporters expected.
‘Untold Stories’ offers lectures, tours and performances on labor history
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In celebration of labor history month each May, the Untold Stories series presents programs and talks on both local and national labor history topics. This year’s theme is the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Community
SEIU Local 26 president honored with Wellstone Award
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Service Employees International Union Local 26 President Javier Morillo has been honored with the Paul D. Wellstone Award for Lifetime Commitment to Organized Labor.