Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/bargaining/page/17/)
Less than a week after nearly 3,000 Minnesota nurses took to the streets to advocate for their patients, thousands more will conduct another round of informational picketing on Wednesday, May 12, from 1:30-5 p.m. outside three area hospitals.
Nearly 3,000 Twin Cities nurses took to the streets Thursday in a powerful display of solidarity, conducting informational picketing outside three area hospitals. With video.
A fund has been created to help members of Laborers Local 563 who have been on strike at Fabcon, Inc., for nearly a month.
Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” and Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” rang out over the loudspeaker of their union headquarters Tuesday morning, as Twin Cities nurses gathered to make signs they will carry on informational picket lines the union plans to stage outside hospitals across the metro area the next two weeks.
Striking workers at Fabcon, Inc., joined by more than 100 supporters at a solidarity rally Thursday, vowed to fight company efforts to roll back wages. With video.
After a week of being locked out of work, after daily picket lines and civil disobedience, window cleaners in Service Employees International Union Local 26 won a new contract, the union announced.
A temporary worker hired as a strikebreaker at Fabcon’s Savage manufacturing plant suffered burns from exposure to lime Monday and sought medical treatment in the emergency room at the Fairview University hospital.
A week-long strike at the Fabcon plant in Savage took a new turn Monday when a busload of strikebreakers crossed picket lines established by members of Laborers Local 563.
Striking workers at the Fabcon plant in Savage got a visit Tuesday from Margaret Anderson Kelliher, speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, who told them, “I think what you’re fighting for is important here.”
More than 50 members of Construction & General Laborers Local 563 went on strike Monday at Fabcon, Inc., in Savage in response to management demands for a 30 percent cut in wages and “significant” increases in health care premiums, the union said.