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A study from the North Star Policy Institute shows that when wind farm developers don’t hire local workers, the community loses an estimated $30 to $40 million in economic benefits across seven major wind farm projects
Last Friday Seward Community Co-op workers ratified their first two-year union contract by a wide margin.
Friday teachers and education workers in Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the country (after New York), voted 98 percent to 2 percent to authorize their first strike in nearly 30 years.
This Labor Day, I think about what America would look like if all workers had wages like union members have.
It’s important work – this year more than ever before – and we can’t do it alone. We need union members and retirees like you to get involved as Labor 2018 volunteers.
A new report (link is external)compiled after hundreds of interviews with St. Paul workers showcases the crisis of poverty wages facing the thousands of workers in St. Paul who currently make less than $15 per hour
Workers are in motion because organizers in every neighborhood and in every workplace are finding their voice and sharing their story of hope and a vision for the future.
AFSCME 2822 members working for Hennepin County held an informational picket. AFSCME workers are fighting for fair wages in their current contract negotiations with Hennepin County
If you’re visiting the Minnesota State Fair, be sure to plan time for a stop at the Minnesota AFL-CIO Labor’s Pavilion.
Anticipating the White House will propose privatizing the U.S. Postal Service – eliminating services and displacing union jobs – the Postal Workers (APWU) launched a mass campaign to derail the privatization scheme.