Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/author/tsuperadmin/page/43/)
In a decision that reopens a whole universe of unorganized workers to unions, the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Tuesday that private college teaching assistants and research assistants are “employees” under labor law and can be unionized.
Since its organizing drive began this spring, Local 22 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union has filed “at least a dozen” charges with the National Labor Relations Board alleging Franklin Street Bakery violated workers’ rights.
Earlier this month, Mayo Clinic basked in the news it was ranked No. 1 on the “Best Hospitals Honor Roll.” But Wednesday, the health care giant garnered publicity of a different sort as protestors, including state legislators, raised questions about its plan to contract out food service operations.
The Minnesota AFL-CIO’s Labor Pavilion will offer a full schedule of events during the 2016 Minnesota State Fair, which starts Thursday, Aug. 25, and runs through Labor Day, Sept. 5.
The St. Paul City Council is slated to vote Wednesday on an ordinance to extend paid sick time to 70,000 workers – and supporters are gearing up to make sure it happens.
Supporters of a $15 minimum wage gathered Tuesday to celebrate – and chart a course to victory on the November ballot.
OSHA has slammed the nation’s largest poultry processor, Tyson Foods, with more than $263,000 in fines after an unguarded conveyor belt in Tyson’s Center, Texas, plant, caught a worker’s finger and dragged his hand into a deboning machine – amputating the finger.
Janitors who clean Kohl’s departments stores and their allies held actions Saturday around Minnesota to put pressure on the company to sign a responsible contractor policy.
Nurses represented by the Minnesota Nurses Association voted overwhelmingly to call for a second unfair labor practice strike on Allina Health and reject the hospital negotiators’ latest offer on a new three-year contract.
