Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/author/filiberto/page/22/)
On Monday, flanked by advocates and supporters, Gov. Tim Walz held a signing ceremony for bipartisan provisions of H.F. 2, the Omnibus Jobs and Economic Development budget, creating the strongest protections against wage theft in the country.
On ‘Prime Day’ Amazon warehouse workers at MSP1 in Shakopee took part in an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike for safe & reliable jobs, better working conditions, the right to organize, and increased respect for the predominantly East African workforce.
The vigils mourned the refugees and immigrants who have died in ICE detention and protested the dehumanizing conditions of these camps.
If the US economy is supposedly in a steady recovery state, why are people struggling so much with job security, happiness, and liveability?
Working people have suffered from and will continue to bear the burden of the failures of these bad trade deals.
Worthington, Minnesota, home to a major meatpacking plant with a majority immigrant workforce, is a microcosm of an expanding border regime where a power struggle unfolds between longtime residents and newcomers.
“The impact of heat stress on labor productivity is a serious consequence of climate change, which adds to other adverse impacts such as changing rain patterns, raising sea levels and loss of biodiversity,” said ILO’s Catherine Saget.
Not satisfied to build properties in the Midwest, Elsey is attempting to take advantage of the lack of communication among regulatory jurisdictions and is taking their show to the West Coast.
Three months after the largest manufacturing strike of the Trump presidency so far, locomotive plant workers in Erie, Pennsylvania,
But the revitalization of sympathy strikes and mass labor organizing all across the country in recent years suggests that the legacy of the Great Pullman Strike remains very much alive today.