Who Built Our Capitol? video and website launched
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The Who Built Our Capitol? project reached a major milestone with the launch of a 46-minute video documentary and website.
Cretex strikers take their message to the State Fair
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In addition to manning the picket lines at Cretex Companies in Shakopee, striking union workers are at the Minnesota State Fair educating the public about their fight to keep their earned retirement funds.
Walkout puts spotlight on need for higher wage
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On a day where thousands of low-wage workers participated in a national strike, retail cleaning workers joined together through a Twin Cities workers center held a rally in support of their efforts.
The minimum wage after 75 years: Still helping workers, still opposed by Corporate America
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If there are two constants in the history of the U.S. minimum wage, enacted in 1938 as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act, one is that it is critical to helping millions of workers rise out of poverty. The other is that many Republicans and businesses still oppose raising it.
Organized labor is remaking itself
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Faced with huge economic pressures, declining membership due to the Great Recession and venal, vicious employers who stop at nothing – including rampant labor law-breaking, political manipulation and corporate bankruptcy – to squash workers and destroy unions, organized labor is remaking itself.
Commentary: Worker centers are key to revitalizing the labor movement
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On Sept. 8, the AFL-CIO will kick off its national convention in Los Angeles. The last time it was held in L.A. was in 1999, when the AFL-CIO announced its historic declaration for a legalization program for all undocumented immigrants, increased workplace protection for immigrant workers and an end to employer sanction laws.
Nothing About Us Without Us: Trans-Pacific Partnership
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This video captures the march of hundreds of people through downtown Minneapolis on August 21, 2013 to protest secret negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive trade deal that could jeopardize American jobs, wages, consumer safety, health care and environmental standards. Josh Wise, Director of the Minnesota Free Trade Coalition, Dan McGrath, Executive Director of TakeAction Minnesota and Larry Cohen, President of the Communication Workers of America International Union advocated fair trade rather than free trade and explored the issues behind the new fast track trade deal that would be another race to the bottom for working people around the globe. online pharmacy buy imuran online no prescription online pharmacy paxil over the counter with best prices today in the USA online pharmacy order robaxin no prescription with best prices today in the USA online pharmacy https://studenthealthcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/forminator/10964_3a2da94c9eecfad6f95a6a11686e91f3/css/strattera.html no prescription buy strattera online https://applegreenstores.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/strattera.html no prescription pharmacy
Coalition mobilizing for $9.50 minimum wage
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Vowing that “it’s time for work to pay again,” a coalition of community, faith, labor and service organizations came together at the Minnesota State Fair to announce a campaign for a $9.50 minimum wage by 2015.
Labor Education Service announces 2013-2014 skills courses
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The University of Minnesota Labor Education Service is offering six courses on “nuts & bolts” skills important to working people. The 2013-2014 schedule includes an online class, “Introduction to the Labor Movement.”
Northern Minnesota workers call for higher minimum wage
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The Minnesota House of Representatives tried hard to raise the state’s minimum wage to $9.50 an hour and index it to inflation in the session that ended May 21. They got no help from the conservative Senate, even though it was also controlled by the DFL, and the effort died.