Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/author/tsuperadmin/page/29/)
Corporate special interests clashed with working people during a Capitol hearing on legislation that would roll back ordinances extending earned sick and safe time to an estimated 150,000 workers in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Workers at all branches of TruStone Financial Credit Union will be back in the bargaining unit represented by Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 12, thanks to a settlement between the employer and the union.
Fighting hunger is a worthy cause, but workers at a local bakery say their bosses should start by paying them a living wage.So they are planning their own event to contrast with a lavish corporate shindig tied to the Super Bowl.
Some labor organizations are speaking out against President Donald Trump’s executive order to temporarily ban entry into the United States for migrants from seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees from around the world. Others announced plans to fight Trump administration policies on immigration and sanctuary cities.
The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry is suing three related trucking companies for $524,000 for allegedly committing wage theft against 95 employees by fraud.
The numbers of unionists and their share of the U.S. workforce both declined in 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics calculated. In Minnesota, union membership held steady at 14.2 percent of the workforce.
Three unions representing federal workers and two influential lawmakers on government workforce issues denounced Republican President Donald Trump’s decision, carrying out yet another campaign promise, to freeze hiring of federal workers.
Calling it a “back-door voucher plan,” educators and allies are challenging a bill introduced in the 2017 Legislature that would give people tax credits for private school tuition and allow corporations and wealthy individuals to get tax breaks for donating to private school scholarship funds.
Central Minnesota poultry plant workers stepped up their efforts to get management to address what they say are unsafe working conditions, demonstrating Wednesday outside the headquarters of GNP Co., the maker of Gold’n Plump and Just Bare chicken products.
