Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2016/01/)
A half mile from their union hall, more 220 retired members of Teamsters Local 346 gathered at Holy Family Catholic Church in Duluth’s West End last Thursday to fight for their pensions.
Minnesota’s union membership rate held steady at 14.2 percent of the workforce in 2015 with 363,000 working Minnesotans belonging to a union. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ annual survey of union membership also showed the national rate holding steady at 11.1 percent.
Postal unions and the top customers of the U.S. Postal Service all agree on key provisions of a planned postal reform bill to virtually end USPS’ current red ink and set it up on a sound future footing, Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando says.
With a long career in health care, Mary Turner says her passion for the profession led to a rapid rise to the presidency of the Minnesota Nurses Association. She brings a belief that nurses can be powerful agents of change in the world.
Nearly six months past a July 31, 2015 contract expiration date, protracted negotiations continue for a new contract between Metro Transit and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005.
Joined by Lt. Gov. Tina Smith and other supporters, janitors who clean buildings across the Twin Cities voted Saturday to authorize a strike if employers don’t agree to a new union contract that addresses racial and economic disparities.
The Minnesota Association of Professional Employees is seeking a business agent. The Greater Minnesota Worker Center is seeking an organizer who is proficient in English and Spanish.
Faculty delivered signed union cards to the Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services Wednesday to trigger an election to form a faculty union at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities campus.
The Twin Cities Labor Chorus sang in San Francisco over Martin Luther King weekend, at the Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival.
Saying of the economic and political elite, “When they divide us up, they can beat us. When we stick together, they can’t,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka declared workers of all races, classes and genders must unite to reclaim the future.