Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/author/filiberto/page/47/)
Journalists from the Pioneer Press and other newspapers in the Digital First chain rallied together last week in New York, demanding their bosses at Alden Global Capital invest in journalism – or sell to new owners who will.
What convinced Mr. Janus to join this destructive lawsuit? Your guess is as good as mine. I do know it’s much bigger than him. He’s the public face, but this case is backed by a network of billionaires and corporate front groups like the National Right-to-Work Foundation.
Ezekiel “Zeke” Caligiuri remembers learning that inmate labor built St. Cloud Correctional Facility. Upon that discovery, he began seeing the walls of his cell in a different hue. Zeke observed that he “lived in a space that had been lived in for 100 years.” He grappled with the sobering reality that countless men before him had labored to sustain their own confinement and would continue to do so long after he was gone. As Zeke describes in his memoir, “I thought about a world that had no problem forgetting any of us ever existed.” Being forgotten behind concrete and steel bars also means that there is little observance and awareness of the treatment of prison laborers like Zeke.
This year’s MSWW is a place for participants to meet workers and activists across many industries and from cities and states around the Midwest.
Mark Glende and Hank Wessel were honored in Washington D.C. Wednesday as two of the five recipients of the, 2018 Recognizing Inspiring School Employees (RISE) award.
Hundreds of Hennepin County workers rallied at the Government Center on Monday, May 7, to kick off their contract negotiations.
The Department of Corrections (DOC) has a monopoly over an inmate’s shelter, work opportunities, and medical care. Since inmates live in their workplace, their living conditions are also their working conditions.
Today, independent, nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute (EPI) released a study arguing that by virtually every metric, Minnesota’s economy has performed far better for working families than Wisconsin’s since governors Mark Dayton and Scott Walker were elected in 2010.
Picketing continues at the J.J. Taylor’s terminal at 701 Industrial Boulevard NE in Minneapolis.
While our unions are prepared internally for whatever the decision is, we also need to be prepared to respond to the onlookers of our movement.