May Day march to focus on immigration reform
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Community, faith, labor and other organizations will march Thursday, May 1, in St. Paul to celebrate International Workers Day and call for comprehensive immigration reform.
Why march on May Day?
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Every May Day, millions of workers around the world celebrate International Workers Day, the original Labor Day.
Building Trades remember those killed and injured on the job
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Minnesota’s Building Trades unions gathered Friday at the state Capitol to remember those killed and injured on the job in the past year.
More than 50,000 U.S. workers die every year on the job
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More than 50,000 U.S. workers die each year due to occupational injuries and illnesses, says “Preventable Deaths 2014,” a report released by the National Council on Occupational Safety and Health.
Faculty at two Twin Cities colleges organizing into unions
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With students and community members showing their support, contingent faculty at Macalester College and Hamline University announced they are seeking to unionize.
Postal Service actions jeopardize security of the mail, workers say
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A Postal Service decision to open postal counters in Staples stores will compromise service to customers and jeopardize the security of the mail, employees and community members said at rallies held nationwide Thursday.
Postal Workers plan actions at Staples stores Thursday
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Staples and the U.S. Postal Service have cut a deal that will replace full-service post offices with privately run post offices inside Staples stores. These knock-off post offices will not be staffed with Postal Service employees.
International Falls nurses see signs of support
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Nurses in International Falls are seeing signs of community support everywhere as they seek a contract that protects patient safety.
College players to vote on union, but face legal challenges
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In what is, so far, a battle of dueling legal briefs, college football players who want to unionize and their foe, Northwestern University, filed their written arguments with the National Labor Relations Board.
Federal study: 57% of poultry plant workers suffer ergonomic injuries
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Almost six of every 10 of the nation’s poultry plant workers – 57% – suffer musculoskeletal, or ergonomic, ills from the constant repetitive motions they undertake cutting up chickens and turkeys on the job, a new federal study says.