Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2014/10/page/2/)
Under pressure from the Communications Workers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced an initiative on Oct. 14 to reduce the number of workers killed in fatal falls from cellphone transmission towers.
Voter ID laws, and their impact on preventing hundreds of thousands of people from voting, are a big untold story of the 2014 election.
Following news that the first U.S. nurse has now tested positive for the deadly Ebola virus, National Nurses United called for all hospitals to have in place the highest standard of protections to confront Ebola.
PRIDE, a film inspired by an extraordinary true story, is being screened in the Twin Cities at the Edina Cinema.
The United Auto Workers’ defeat in a representation election at Volkswagen’s auto plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., in February hasn’t stopped the union from trying out a new model for locals in the South.
Finnish educator and scholar Pasi Sahlberg will explain how Finland built its education system into one of the best in the world during his keynote speech at the Education Minnesota Professional Conference, which runs from Oct. 16 to 17 at the Saint Paul RiverCentre.
It’s hard to imagine a beautiful flower has anything to do with the ugly side of free trade and globalization. But Colombians who provide bouquets for U.S. and world vases have experienced falling pay, growing health problems and human rights violations.
For Jesse Busk and Laurie Castro, it’s all a question of overtime pay. And that landed their case against a Nevada staffing firm before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday.
A majority of employees at TakeAction Minnesota have organized as a new unit of the Minnesota Newspaper & Communications Guild, TNG-CWA Local 37002.
Flowers are one of Colombia’s biggest exports – with 76 percent going to the United States – yet workers in this industry have few protections. Two Colombian workers will discuss these issues at a free program Tuesday in Minneapolis.