Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2017/03/page/2/)
The health care bill being rushed through the U.S. Congress could cause “an unimaginable amount of harm” to nursing home residents and communities in Greater Minnesota, administrators and workers said Friday.
Workers whose jobs making Oreos and other snacks have been moved to Mexico held a “Social Media Day of Action” Thursday to call attention to the actions of Nabisco/Mondelez. It marked the one-year anniversary of the layoffs of more than 600 workers from Nabisco’s Chicago bakery.
Franklin Street Bakery workers donated more than $1,000 from their “Taste of Justice” event to a local food shelf and called on their employer to sign a neutrality agreement so they can unionize to improve their wages and working conditions.
Chanting “Exploitation has got to go!” dozens of farm workers and supporters converged on the Wendy’s restaurant in north Minneapolis Monday, calling on the company to honor the human rights of the workers who help produce their food.
As part of an on-going campaign to stop the privatization of Medicare and Social Security, union and Working America members delivered petitions signed by several hundred Minnesotans to the St. Paul office of U.S. Senator Al Franken Monday.
Four months after their shocking defeat in the 2016 election, leaders of the nation’s unions are still struggling to figure out why – and what to do next.
AFSCME members and supporters marched outside Hennepin County Medical Center Friday, protesting the layoff of 131 workers as HCMC claims to face “financial challenge.”
Members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a Florida-based farm worker organization, will hold a cultural event and protest Sunday and Monday in Minneapolis.
AFSCME Local 3800 is among the organizations endorsing an anti-war protest to be held Saturday, March 18, to mark 14 years since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
The deadline to register for the Minnesota Union Women & Femmes Retreat has been extended to Friday, March 31.