Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/author/hkling/page/4/)
Building on efforts by fast food workers and others to demand higher pay, workers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport called on the Metropolitan Airports Commission to institute a minimum wage of $15 an hour.
“We will never let our fate be decided by anybody but us,” AFSCME International President Lee Saunders told 600 delegates on the opening day of Council 5’s annual convention in Bloomington.
Like a prophet of old, the Rev. William Barber II is going to inspire us to march with him – or he’s going to make us squirm. Saturday in downtown Minneapolis, 250 people marched – fired up by a speech that was rousing, visionary, and blunt.
Behind-closed-door trade talks that began July 3 could undermine “Buy American” policies that protect good-paying jobs in the United States.
A demonstration in support of low-wage workers who assist Delta Air Lines’ operations at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport spilled into the roadway outside Terminal 1, forcing lane closures and resulting in 13 arrests.
Minnesota workers and their families will benefit in many ways, including higher wages and more job opportunities, from the 2014 legislative session.
On April 9, one day before the Minnesota House followed the Senate and passed a raise in the state minimum wage, marchers rallied in Sartell to hold corporations like Walmart and McDonald’s to higher standards of pay and conditions for the minimum wage workers at their stores.
The 2014 Untold Stories series focuses on the struggles facing workers in the past – and how they influence the issues of today. This year’s theme is “Memory and Place.”
A new analysis of federal job data shows huge job growth through 2022 will be in low-wage majority-female occupations.
Fast food workers, union members and the faith community gathered in front of a Minneapolis McDonald’s to call on the fast food giant to pay family supporting wages to their employees.