Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2015/06/)
Years of effort have built to the July 1st launch of the first-ever union contract for home health care workers in Minnesota. Workers say its provisions will improve their lives and the quality of care for their clients.
Overturning a cutback the Bush administration instituted a decade ago, President Barack Obama announced a new overtime pay rule on June 30.
In a decision that was widely expected, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a case challenging public employee rights in the workplace.
Fridley, Minnesota, native Sara Steffens was elected secretary-treasurer of the Communications Workers of America, one of the largest labor unions in the country.
After engaging in a one-week strike, members of Sprinkler Fitters Local 417 ratified a new contract.
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 653 launched an informational picket at the opening of non-union Glen Lake’s Market in Minnetonka. Workers say they are owed tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid wages.
The AFL-CIO and a top ally, Public Citizen, are protesting deep cuts to pro-worker services in a money bill now moving through the GOP-run U.S. House of Representatives.
In a virtual rerun from two weeks ago — and a win for corporations and the 1 percent — the U.S. Senate voted 60-38 Wednesday to pass so-called “fast track” legislation to grease the skids for future free trade pacts without changes or worker rights.
Shar Knutson, the first woman to serve as president of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, announced she will retire in October.
Opponents of fast track trade legislation planned numerous rallies and other events as the U.S. Senate was poised to vote Tuesday on the controversial measure.