Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2013/04/page/3/)
Peanut butter or jelly? Juice or coffee? Dry spaghetti or ravioli in a can? Those aren’t decisions Rep. Jason Metsa usually wrestles with in the grocery store, but the Iron Range DFLer is tightening his belt this week after signing a pledge to live on Minnesota’s minimum wage of $7.25 per hour for five days.
Musicians for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra say they are pleased with a tentative agreement ending a nearly six-month lockout and eager to get back to work.
Members of the Minnesota Newspaper Guild Typographical Union will rally outside the Star Tribune today at 4 pm. to support their bargaining committee as it seeks to win a fair contract.
Union members organized by the AFL-CIO participated in a Working Families Day on the Hill Monday at the state Capitol and urged lawmakers to adopt Governor Mark Dayton’s jobs and infrastructure bonding proposal.
As legislation to raise the minimum wage to $9.95 makes its way through the Minnesota Legislature, Rep. Jason Metsa, DFL-Virginia, is taking up Working America’s challenge to live on Minnesota’s current minimum wage for five days.
AFSCME Council 5 Monday announced its support for marriage equality and urged state legislators to extend the freedom to marry to same-sex couples throughout Minnesota.
May 1 is the deadline to apply for the Nellie Stone Johnson Scholarships for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fed up with wages so low that they often face eviction, and lack of power to fight for a decent living standard, thousands of New York City fast food workers staged a second 1-day walkout from their jobs, on April 4. The workers, led by the Fast Food Forward, a community-based organizing group, demanded living wages of $15 an hour – barely enough to survive on in New York – and the right to organize without employer interference. It was their second walkout. The first was last November.
Labor activist, agitator and journalist Harry Kelber, longtime writer and editor of The Labor Educator and crusader/critic of AFL-CIO leaders, practices and perpetuation in office, died March 31 in New York City. He was 98. Starting as a union printer in 1939, Kelber carved out a career for himself in New York liberal and sometimes radical unionism, challenging established authority and agitating for open and democratic procedures within the labor movement.