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Cabinetmakers who say they were fired by Aaron Carlson Corp. for union organizing are bannering the state Capitol this week – where the company’s cabinets and millwork are being installed as part of the building’s renovation.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is lauding a Department of Treasury decision to deny the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund application to cut the pensions of thousands of Teamsters Union retirees.
The nature of work is changing dramatically, and it’s creating new challenges – and pitfalls – for regulators charged with protecting workers’ health and safety.
About 50 Twin Cities area union members marched with picket signs outside a Verizon Wireless retail store, showing solidarity with 39,000 Verizon workers who are on strike on the nation’s East Coast.
After more than a year of workers organizing for stronger protections in Minneapolis, the City Council Thursday introduced a paid sick time ordinance that largely follows the recommendations developed by a task force of business owners, labor representatives, business associations and workers.
Up next in this year’s Untold Stories series is “Reviving the Strike,” a discussion of the role of workplace strikes, given the decline in union membership. Author Joe Burns takes a historical perspective that provides insight into future activitism.
Labor History Month kicked off in St. Paul Monday with a discussion of history in the making, as panelists offered insight into public-sector workers’ recent push to breath new life into their unions and defend their right to a voice on the job.
As the Minneapolis City Council prepares to take up the issue of earned safe and sick time Thursday, unions are urging elected officials to adopt the comprehensive recommendations of a citywide task force.
The 2016 Untold Stories series continues today with a program focusing on a particularly tragic episode in the history of the Wobblies, the Industrial Workers of the World. Titled “Elmer Smith and the Wobblies with Tom Copeland,” the program is at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, at the Merriam Park Library, 1831 Marshall Ave.
Carpenters who have been organizing a union at the Aaron Carlson Corp. have filed for injunctive relief after they were fired on Friday and the company announced it was closing its Morris, Minn., operations.