Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2014/08/)
The East Side Freedom Library will host “The History of Labor Day,” a free, public event to explore how Labor Day became a holiday, from 7 to 9 p.m. Aug. 28. The event will feature readings from historic labor speeches, music and solidarity.
On Tuesday, Minnesota’s home care workers etched a new chapter in the state’s history, alongside the miners who organized the Iron Range, the truck drivers who shut down Minneapolis in 1934 and the women who led landmark strikes by teachers in 1946 and 1970 and by nurses in 1984.
If there ever is a year that proves the importance of judges’ rulings to workers’ rights, 2014 is it. That’s because the jurists in black robes spent much of the year taking rights away.
The Labor Education Service video documentary, Who Built Our Capitol? about the men and women who constructed the Minnesota State Capitol Building, will be broadcast on Labor Day by Twin Cities Public Television.
A National Labor Relations Board official slammed the U.S. Postal Service’s scheme to subcontract services to Staples stores. And half the U.S. Senate now opposes management’s plan to close 82 more distribution centers.
Minnesota home health care workers seeking union representation survived a court challenge from opponents and are looking forward to ballots being counted Aug. 26.
Education and entertainment about unions and workers will be featured at the Minnesota AFL-CIO Labor Pavilion at the Minnesota State Fair. The pavilion is open throughout the fair, which starts Thursday, Aug. 21, and runs through Labor Day, Sept. 1.
In a decision that could have wide-ranging implications, McDonald’s is being held responsible for worker rights violations at some of its franchise locations.
After AFSCME exposed problems with the outsourcing of food service at Minnesota prisons, the state announced it will end the practice and restore 64 jobs.
Like a prophet of old, the Rev. William Barber II is going to inspire us to march with him – or he’s going to make us squirm. Saturday in downtown Minneapolis, 250 people marched – fired up by a speech that was rousing, visionary, and blunt.