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Paris’s bus and metro operator, Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP), is offering discounts on rides with 32 private transportation companies—including Uber’s e-bike and e-scooter vertical, JUMP and e-scooter company Lime—in an attempted strike break.
After a decade in office, RLF President Bobby Kasper will retire at the end of December. Delegates unanimously elected RLF Political Director Kera Peterson to succeed Kasper as president.
CTUL and Reclaim the Block respond to the Minneapolis city budget. The 2020 budget was passed Wednesday night.
Census figures show several Twin Cities suburbs have seen double-digit increases in their immigrant and refugee populations in recent years. As new residents stream in from around the world, local governments are adapting to meet their needs.
The “walk-a-day” event offered Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who participated in a similar event in Minneapolis, a unique perspective on the state’s home health industry.
In recent years, with the construction industry facing a shortage of skilled tradespeople, unions and contractors have boosted their marketing and recruitment efforts. Amanda Phillips, an apprenticeship instructor with the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters, said the union is doing outreach events several times a month.
“On the one hand, I’m always in relationship with and responding to new movements as they emerge,” Levins Morales says. “The other side of my art is to address issues that nobody is talking about.”
As part of the week’s events, four apprentice profiles from across the State were collected by the MN Trades Council.
The results of Tuesday nights municipal elections saw union-backed candidates, women, and people of color surge to victory. School levies across the state were also the big winner.
Members of SEIU 73 ratified their contract this week, and CTU members will now have 10 days to do so. But the impact of the two-week walkout is likely to extend far beyond the contracts themselves.