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Nearly 1,000 Mankato-area high school students are participating Tuesday and Wednesday in Construct Tomorrow, an apprentice program of the Mankato Building Trades to provide a hands-on introduction to careers in the skilled building trades.
The nation’s largest labor federation convened its national convention – held only every four years – with calls for action and pledges of unity.
President Richard Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler and Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre faced no opposition and were re-elected to another four-year term of office at the national AFL-CIO convention in St. Louis.
Want to buy union-made candy this Halloween? The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor’s resource site, Labor 411, has compiled a list.
Income inequality and the wage gap are far more than simply unfair, according to Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO.
In an act of powerful solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, delegates attending the AFL-CIO’s 2017 national convention walked out of the America’s Center Saturday to join local BLM activists who had been refused entry by convention center management. The unions had invited BLM activists to speak.
Twin Cities workers, together with national labor experts, called on public officials Wednesday to beef up enforcement of Minneapolis-St. Paul ordinances requiring employers to pay earned sick and safe time and the new Minneapolis minimum wage of $15 an hour.
Minnesota’s largest professional development event for educators is back Thursday and Friday, Oct. 19 and 20, with a continued emphasis on helping students on the margins and a renewed focus on encouraging aspiring teachers to get their first jobs and stay in the profession.
U.S., Canadian and independent Mexican union leaders said they and their members will jointly fight for a strong, pro-worker, new NAFTA, North American Free Trade Agreement. But if they can’t achieve that, they’ll fight equally hard to beat it.
A Campus Labor Institute offered Saturday, Oct. 21, will feature sessions on worker organizing, history and more. The event runs from 9:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. in the 3M Auditorium of the Carlson School of Management on the West Bank of the university’s Minneapolis campus.