Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2013/09/page/2/)
The Minnesota AFL-CIO is seeking a Strategic Partnerships Organizer and a Membership Development & Data Metrics Coordinator. The Minnesota Association of Professional Employees is seeking a Director of Member Engagement, Development and Organizing. AFSCME Council 5 is seeking a Data Specialist. Teamsters Local 320 is seeking a Lead Organizer.
As the lockout of Minnesota Orchestra musicians reaches a critical stage, Orchestra patrons plan a rally featuring music Friday, Sept. 20, to call for an end to the dispute.
Nurses at the Mayo Health Clinic System in Mankato conducted an informational picket as contract talks continue between the MHCS and the Minnesota Nurses Association.
AFSCME negotiators announced that union members have voted to accept St. Louis County’s latest contract offer, preventing a strike by two-thirds of the county’s workforce.
Minnesota unionists attending the national AFL-CIO convention say they were inspired by the convention’s emphasis on organizing and coalition work – and plan to focus on these areas in the coming months.
While endorsing the goals of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, delegates to the national AFL-CIO convention condemned provisions that threaten the health care plans of 20 million Americans, including several hundred thousand in Minnesota.
With the Republican Senate minority having successfully filibustered and stopped the Employee Free Choice Act, which would have leveled the playing field between workers and bosses in organizing and bargaining, the AFL-CIO has decided to go beyond that. Far beyond that.
The realities facing American workers – from unemployment and stagnant wages to the lack of family-supporting jobs – are driving the nation’s unions to seek new, deeper relationships with community groups and other allies.
New U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez delivered a stem-winding speech Tuesday at the AFL-CIO national convention, pledging stronger worker protections and extolling the virtue of labor unions.
The death of a worker at the site of the new St. Paul Saints ballpark drew national attention Tuesday at the AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles.