Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/bargaining/page/4/)
Members of Council 5 of AFSCME, the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, and MAPE, the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, will vote on tentative contract settlements with the State of Minnesota.
Union workers at Cretex Companies are stepping up pressure for a fair contract by airing ads on three Twin Cities radio stations.
Contract negotiations break down over drastic company-proposed 80 percent reduction in long-term retirement benefits for workers at at Cretex Shakopee faclity.
Teamsters are voting, with a deadline of June 20, on new contracts with United Parcel Service and UPS Freight. The contracts cover 250,000 workers, making them the largest private-sector bargaining agreements in the United States.
Workers who clean Target and other retail stores in the Twin Cities will hold a two-day strike starting Monday to protest working conditions and call attention to their right to form a union. The walkout will include demonstrations and a delegation to the Target shareholders’ meeting.
The longest U.S. hotel strike ever, by 130 workers at Chicago’s Congress Hotel, ended May 29, just short of its 10th anniversary.
Duluth nurses represented by the Minnesota Nurses Association have voted to ratify a three-year contract with St. Luke\’s Hospital that would raise wages 4.5 percent.
Musicians for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra say they are pleased with a tentative agreement ending a nearly six-month lockout and eager to get back to work.
Members of the Minnesota Newspaper Guild Typographical Union will rally outside the Star Tribune today at 4 pm. to support their bargaining committee as it seeks to win a fair contract.
Fed up with wages so low that they often face eviction, and lack of power to fight for a decent living standard, thousands of New York City fast food workers staged a second 1-day walkout from their jobs, on April 4. The workers, led by the Fast Food Forward, a community-based organizing group, demanded living wages of $15 an hour – barely enough to survive on in New York – and the right to organize without employer interference. It was their second walkout. The first was last November.