Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/bargaining/page/9/)
Members of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota will vote May 14 and 15 whether to authorize a strike at eight Twin Cities hospitals. They also are challenging the roles of bankers on hospital boards and a debt collection company that has garnered headlines for questionable practices.
In public actions across the Twin Cities Thursday, union workers asked consumers to stop buying Verizon Wireless products until the company starts dealing fairly with its workers.
The state Bureau of Mediation Services will count ballots Monday in the union representation election by graduate student workers at the University of Minnesota.
Leaders of AFSCME Council 5 and MAPE are urging members to reject a contract offer from Governor Mark Dayton’s administration. Voting “no” means contract negotiations will be submitted to binding arbitration for resolution.
Workers locked out of their jobs by two large companies – American Crystal Sugar and Cooper Tire & Rubber – join forces this week for a “Journey for Justice” that includes events across Minnesota.
Carrying signs and chanting “Fair contract now!” workers demonstrated Thursday outside the Saint Paul Hotel, where management is proposing a wage and benefit package below that provided by less profitable hotels. With video!
Members of UNITE HERE Local 17 will demonstrate in front of the Saint Paul Hotel at noon Thursday to pressure hotel management to negotiate a fair contract.
The most profitable nursing home in Minnesota is seeking wage freezes and givebacks from workers, jeopardizing the quality of care, workers said.
Members of Bakers Local 22 have approved two five-year agreements bringing annual wage increases for workers at Old Dutch Foods and Ralcorp/Lofthouse.
Members of AFSCME who work for Hennepin County voted December 6 to approve new two-year contracts. The agreements offer workers a $500 lump sum payment in January 2012 and across-the-board wage increases for 2013.