Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/bargaining/page/5/)
Working to change a state law denying them the right to form a union, home health care workers “made it rain” at the Capitol yesterday, streaming more than 1,000 purple cutouts – each representing a home-care worker who has signed up for the union – from the second level onto the rotunda floor.
In yet another Minnesota workplace, an employer has chosen to lock out union workers rather than negotiate a new contract. However, in the case of Snappy Air Distribution Products in Detroit Lakes, the lockout ended after eight days.
The atmosphere at Sisters’ Camelot, a mobile food shelf and kitchen bus based in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis, has grown increasingly tense as a labor dispute between the newly-formed canvassers’ union and the collective management enters its second week, workers say.
Community groups recently joined locked-out workers in urging Target Corporation to boycott American Crystal Sugar, which locked out union employees on Aug. 1, 2011. View video of the event.
new bargaining unit of 100 restaurant and food service workers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport has ratified a first-time contract.
After two months without a contract, hundreds of hours of negotiations and a one-day strike, janitors and security officers represented by Service Employees International Union Local 26 voted Saturday to approve new contracts.
Twin Cities security officers celebrated Friday after reaching a tentative agreement with all of their employers that strengthens the middle class through stable, full-time jobs.
After a one-day strike that involved hundreds of security officers, a federal mediator has confirmed that the parties are headed back to the bargaining table Thursday morning.
Service Employees International Union Local 26 and the Minneapolis-St. Paul Contract Cleaners Association reached a tentative agreement covering 4,000 Twin Cities janitors, but 2,000 security officers plan a walkout after failing to reach a deal with their employers.
Fred Anthony II is in a unique position to observe the inequality in today’s economy.