Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/author/tsuperadmin/page/44/)
Looking to build on recent victories at Target and Best Buy, retail janitors in the Twin Cities will put the pressure on Kohl’s this weekend – during the busy back-to-school shopping season – to do right by the workers who clean its stores.
After banding together with workers at 11 other newspapers owned by the same hedge fund, union members at the St. Paul Pioneer Press won their first wage increase in seven years.
After nearly two years of work, state employees will likely see a paid parental leave policy enacted this fall, thanks in large part to organizing by members of MAPE.
On Monday, airport workers put their employer, Air Serv, and the Metropolitan Airports Commission on notice they are tired of waiting and will strike if no progress is made toward better working conditions and the right to form a union.
The “Labor Movie Night” series presents a free screening of “Matewan” Friday, Aug. 19, at 6 p.m. at the East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier St., St. Paul.
Led by the Minnesota AFL-CIO, unions across Minnesota plan four “Days of Action” as part of the Labor 2016 political effort. The goal is to turn out union members and their families to vote in the Nov. 8 elections.
Members of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, the Ho-Chunk Nation, the Red Lake Nation and the Leech Lake and Mille Lacs Ojibwe bands recently celebrated graduation from the Cement Masons’ pre-apprenticeship program.
Some 36 percent of all U.S. residents are either financially desperate – meaning they don’t earn enough to pay basic bills – or barely getting by, a new international survey says.
Food service workers – many of them with decades of experience – are calling on Mayo Clinic to explain its decision to subcontract their jobs. They say the outsourcing could diminish the quality of service to patients.
Small business owners in St. Paul said passing a citywide sick-time ordinance is the right thing to do – not only for the health of their workers, but also the health of their bottom lines.