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The workers who used to make Oreo cookies on Chicago’s southwest side – and saw their jobs outsourced to Mexico – brought their campaign for justice to the University of MInnesota recently as part of a nationwide tour of college campuses.
With the clock ticking to the midnight Saturday expiration of a 14-state AT&T contract covering 21,000 workers, local members of the Communications Workers of America rallied outside an AT&T call center in Bloomington Friday morning. On Saturday, the company and union announced the contract would be extended while talks continued.
With the clock ticking to the midnight Saturday expiration of a 14-state AT&T contract covering 21,000 workers, local members of the Communications Workers of America rallied outside an AT&T call center in Bloomington Friday morning.
The state Bureau of Mediation Services Friday dismissed an attempt to decertify the union for 27,000 Minnesota home care workers, meaning a contract securing their wages, benefits and working conditions can move forward.
Edwina Patterson, a member of Laborers Local 563 in Minneapolis, is in Washington, D.C., this week to be honored for her work to advocate for more people of color in the Building Trades.
Registration is open for the Minnesota Union Women & Femme’s Retreat, part of a series of programs sponsored by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service to foster greater participation by women and femmes in their workplaces, unions and communities.
Members of Teamsters Local 1145 have ratified a new contract with Honeywell, avoiding a possible lockout.
Debate in the state Senate Monday over legislation that would bar local governments from adopting labor protections focused on whether the measure is a corporate power grab that threatens democracy.
Workers at Whole Foods Co-op in Duluth Minnesota voted 43-42 to form a union and join the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1189.
UFCW Local 1189 reached an agreement with SuperValu to amend their St. Paul area contracts and increase the starting rates for new hires to $11 per hour, the union announced.