Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/author/filiberto/page/26/)
The National Association of Letter Carriers annual “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive is coming Saturday, May 11. The nation’s largest one-day food drive will help restock local emergency foodshelves across the country.
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled to postpone(link is external) a planned union election vote at Volkswagen’s factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where plant management spent the week waging war against union supporters.
The Inter Faculty Organization (IFO) hosted an informational picket at Hamline University Thursday morning to support the Hamline adjunct faculty union.
Members working in St. Paul area Grocery stores (Cub, Jerry’s, County Market, Lunds&Byerlys, Kowalski’s, Festival, Knowlan’s Meat dept.), overwhelmingly ratified new three year agreements.
The Building Trades honored seven members who died in the past year at a Workers Memorial Day ceremony at the Minnesota State Capitol.
On Wednesday evening, hundreds of hotel workers from across the Twin Cities gathered to march through the streets of downtown Minneapolis to push for strong union contracts. The hotel workers, organized with the Twin Cities Hospitality Union UNITE HERE Local 17, stressed the need for a reduced workload, improved workplace safety policy, and better pay. “I’m fighting for fair wages and respect,” said Jorge Quizhpi, who has been a cook at the Crowne Plaza Northstar for over 15 years. “Most of us have worked here for many years, and we have left our youth in these hotels. It would be nice if the employers would see that and appreciate what we do.
Something is stirring in places long forgotten or overlooked. Young leaders are emerging to take the fight to the boss as workers, immigrants and so many others are under attack. One of those voices speaking with vision, passion, accessibility and intellectual precision is Kooper Caraway.
“What do you do when your employer makes billions in profit, then reduces workers’ wages and benefits? STRIKE. Stop & Shop grocery store workers withheld their labor from over 240 stores over 11 days and forced management to meet their union’s demands. Means TV was there to cover it.”
Before Workers Memorial Day, the AFL-CIO released a report drawing attention to the hazards workers face on the job. The report noted that Minnesota had the 28th highest rate of workplace deaths in 2017.
Wednesday, Representative Ilhan Omar (DFL-MN) hosted a town hall forum at La Doña Cerveceria in North Minneapolis focused on gender and racial pay disparities.