Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/author/tsuperadmin/page/40/)
In what would be a major advance for workers’ use of the ultimate economic weapon, the strike, the National Labor Relations Board’s top enforcement officer, its general counsel, is proposing that companies must prove – not just state – that only by hiring “permanent replacement” workers can they keep going economically, after the firms force their own employees to strike.
The effort to form a faculty union at the University of Minnesota moved forward with a ruling by the state Bureau of Mediation Services affirming that 1,500 tenure-track and 1,000 contingent faculty should be in one bargaining unit.
The “Moral Mondays” movement, which started in North Carolina as protests over the state’s highly restrictive voter ID law, has gone national with “Moral Day of Action” protests in 30 state capitals, Washington, D.C., and other cities around the country.
Two virtually unanimous votes by the U.S. International Trade Commission, imposing tariffs on dumped hot-rolled and cold-rolled steel imports from seven nations, culminate a year-long fight against the imports’ inroads, the United Steelworkers said.
Some 125 non-union workers at the Mayo Clinic are seeking to join their unionized counterparts in SEIU Healthcare Minnesota to take on the health care giant’s plan to contract out their food service jobs.
Nurses on strike at five Twin Cities Allina Health facilities rolled out a campaign to hold their not-for-profit employer’s governing body accountable.
Tuesday’s excellent news on family income growth over the past year doesn’t make up for a legacy of rising inequality — but it is certainly a good start.
Several unions are banding together to host a fundraiser for striking Allina Health nurses on Friday, Sept. 16, in Minneapolis.
Striking Allina Health nurses joined advocates for a $15 minimum wage Monday in a march through north Minneapolis that highlighted the connections among the many businesses that profit off of poverty – and the need for elected officials to take action.
Members of Local 26 of the Service Employees International Union, employed as security officers at the postal distribution center in Eagan, held a one-day strike Monday.