Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/author/cassie/page/3/)
Imagine you sell your home, even borrow money, to move to another community where you are promised a good job. But when you get there, you\’re forced to live in near-slavery conditions.
Backed by a coalition of labor unions, faith groups, and community organizations, a proposed living wage ordinance for the City of Minneapolis today passed the City Council?s Ways and Means Committee and now heads for a full City Council vote Friday.
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney called on the Department of Labor, in a letter to Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, to protect the health and safety of rescue and recovery workers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, to provide employment assistance to displaced workers, and to ensure that the relief, recovery and rebuilding jobs conform with wage and labor standards.
The 41-day Metro Transit bus strike will likely come to an end under a tentative agreement reached early this morning, Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 confirmed the settlement will be brought before its membership.
It?s against U.S. law. It?s against international law.
Most Americans don?t think it happens. Even most union members don?t think it happens. But it does. All the time.Employers aggressively fight workers who exercise their legal freedoms to form a union.
Workers at Borders Books and Music in Uptown still don?t have a contract, but they sent management scrambling Wednesday when they said they?d accept Borders? last contract offer ? an offer the workers previously rejected.
SEIU Local 113 members at Red Wing Health Center have overwhelmingly authorized a strike rather than accept a contract loaded with language and economic concessions.
Think a union doesn?t make much difference? Ask the more than 400 workers at Fairview Lakes Regional Medical Center and its affiliated clinics in Chisago County. In only their second contract, clerical, service and maintenance employees represented by SEIU Local 113 will achieve parity with hospital workers elsewhere in the Twin Cities.