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The Minnesota State Retiree Council, AFL-CIO, will hold its 20th annual convention this Wednesday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.,at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 10 hall, 1681 Cope Ave., Maplewood.
The Northwest Suburbs Community Labor Coalition and Working Partnerships are hosting a Union Jobs Fair on Wednesday, Sept. 27. A variety of union employers and union training and apprenticeship programs will participate in the employer panels and hiring event.
Navy veteran Tom Edwards sees plenty of rhetoric about “supporting our troops,” but said the commitment falls short when it comes to staffing the services they need at Veterans Administration medical facilities. Edwards and dozens of other people participated in a rally Wednesday at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center to call on the Department of Veterans Affairs to fully staff VA facilities.
The University of Minnesota Labor Education Service has begun work on a documentary to chronicle the groundbreaking organizing activities of CTUL, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha/Center for Workers United in Struggle, a Minneapolis-based worker center. Learn more about this project at a free, public discussion on Oct. 7.
Veteran solo performer, playwright and former Minneapolis resident Howard Petrick returns to the Twin Cities with his new show, “Fight for 52 Cents,” an engrossing and electrifying memoir of Minneapolis’ revolutionary labor leader, Vincent Raymond Dunne.
The Minnesota Orchestra will perform a free, one-hour outdoor concert Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 6 p.m. at the Commons in Minneapolis.
Members of the American Federation of Government Employees, veterans and others will rally Wednesday in Minneapolis as part of a nationwide effort to beef up staffing at Veterans Affairs facilities.
While a recent Court of Appeals ruling served as a setback for the push for a faculty union at the University of Minnesota, unionized adjuncts at metro-area private colleges show a trend of significant progress in recent years.
New figures show increasing numbers of work-related fatalities and injuries, highlighting a global failure to address occupational safety and health concerns, according to the World Congress on Safety and Health at Work in Singapore.
Prodded by the president of Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, the Canadian government is formally demanding that a “new NAFTA” force the United States to eliminate so-called “right-to-work” anti-union laws.