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The legislation coming out of the special session of the 2017 Legislature is “deeply flawed or explicitly hostile to the interests of Minnesota children and their families,” Education Minnesota said Wednesday morning. The union called on Governor Mark Dayton to veto the bills.
The 213,000 members of the Letter Carriers will vote this summer on a new 40-month contract with the U.S. Postal Service.
DFL Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders announced shortly before the curtain closed on the 2017 legislative session that they had reached an overall budget agreement, but it will take a special session to finish the job.
Something remarkable happened this past week in Sauk Rapids. An entire shift of workers walked out of Coleman Co. on Monday, May 15. Immediately after, they contacted the Greater Minnesota Worker Center to update us on what had happened.
Failure to adequately fund public defense services could lead to a mass exodus of employees and a potential work stoppage, public defenders warned Monday.
The 95 workers who lost their jobs at Lakeville Motor Express are seeking support on their picketline as they pressure the company to make good on unpaid wages.
Republican President Donald Trump’s formal letter notifying lawmakers that he intends to renegotiate NAFTA, the 23-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, doesn’t go far enough, the AFL-CIO and its allies say.
With the 2017 session of the Minnesota Legislature winding to a close – and little visible progress toward a budget deal between Republican lawmakers and DFL Governor Mark Dayton – hundreds rallied to make sure education is not forgotten.
Brandie Irwin walked the picketline Friday in Roseville, Minn., one of about 600 Minnesotans and tens of thousands of AT&T employees nationwide who walked off the job in a three-day strike.
Adjunct faculty at St. Catherine University filed cards Thursday to trigger a union election to join the Service Employees International Union Local 284.