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The general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board has determined that unfair labor practice charges filed against Mayo Clinic have merit, supporting maintenance workers at the Albert Lea Medical Center who have been seeking a contract for more than 18 months.
The University of Minnesota Labor Education Service will offer an online course, “Introduction to the Labor Movement” from Jan. 30 to March 31. The course provides an overview of the labor movement — its successes and challenges — in a global context.
Led by National Nurses United and aided by 250,000 signatures from members of the Alliance for Retired Americans, a coalition of progressive groups delivered more than a million names on petitions to Congress to save Social Security and Medicare against threatened Republican cuts and privatization.
Finding a family-supporting job in central Minnesota is made more difficult by the fact that nearly half of the openings are part-time, according to new data from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.
Fighting to keep one of the Obama administration’s top pro-worker initiatives alive, the Labor Department announced it will appeal a rural Texas federal judge’s ban on the department’s expansion of worker eligibility for overtime pay.
“Heartbreaking,” “gutless” and “dishonest” were among the ways workers, union leaders and high-ranking elected officials described a Roseville trucking firm’s decision to withhold pay from 90 members of Teamsters Local 120 after abruptly closing the week of Thanksgiving.
The state of Minnesota is projected to have a $1.4 billion budget surplus when the fiscal year ends next June. Labor leaders caution against spending it on tax breaks for the wealthy.
Members of a Minneapolis-based worker center are calling on the management of Kohl’s department stores to meet about a Responsible Contractor Policy – and to apologize for the behavior of a security officer at Eden Prairie Mall.
Labor and social justice artist Ricardo Levins Morales will host his annual holiday art sale Saturday, Dec. 3, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the RLM Arts Studio, 3745 Minnehaha Ave. So., Minneapolis.
