Community
AFSCME Council 5 supports marriage equality
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AFSCME Council 5 Monday announced its support for marriage equality and urged state legislators to extend the freedom to marry to same-sex couples throughout Minnesota.
Community
Poverty Doesn’t Create Jobs
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In the richest nation on earth, it’s wrong for anyone who works full time to live in poverty. Yet millions of Americans who work a 40-hour week are unable to lift their families out of poverty. Imagine supporting your family on just $14,500 a year. That’s what a full-time, minimum-wage job pays. Wages come to less than $279 a week – and that’s before taxes.
Community
Gov. Dayton rallies support for preserving Saturday mail delivery
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Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton joined more than 100 demonstrators outside the main post office in Minneapolis yesterday, leading the call for federal lawmakers to strengthen – not dismantle – the U.S. Postal Service.
Community
Trades night at Target Field planned for June 11
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Tickets are available now for the annual Building Trades night at Target Field, planned for Tuesday, June 11. The Minnesota Twins will play the Philadelphia Phillies at 7:10PM. A pre-game picnic will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the Minneapolis Farmers Market, and a free shuttle bus will run between the Farmers Market and Target Field.
Community
Fight is on to save Saturday mail delivery
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The National Association of Letter Carriers invites the public to join in a “National Day of Action” Sunday, March 24, to show support for maintaining Saturday mail delivery by the U.S. Postal Service.
Community
Union leaders urge quick action to address Postal Service problems
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Since Congress must start all over again to fix the money troubles at the U.S. Postal Service, it should do so the right way, two postal union leaders told lawmakers. And that doesn’t mean eliminating all Saturday pickups and deliveries or firing tens of thousands of workers, they add.
Community
Minnesota House Committee passes ‘Homeowners’ Bill of Rights’
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The Minnesota House Committee on Housing Finance & Policy Tuesday passed H.F. 83, being dubbed the “Homeowners’ Bill of Rights.” The legislation would protect homeowners, improve the foreclosure process and allow for legal recourse against banks.
Community
Postal Service to stop most Saturday service; unions call plan ‘disastrous’
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Saying the move would save $2 billion and lessen red ink, Postmaster General Patrick Donahue announced Wednesday the Postal Service will kill virtually all Saturday service – pickups and deliveries – six months from now. Only parcel deliveries would remain, and some post offices would stay open on Saturdays.
Community
Exhibition and concert Friday to benefit workers’ campaign
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Rogue Citizen artist collective is working with the Service Employees International Union and CTUL, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha, on an effort to win living wages and basic benefits for thousands of Twin Cities janitors and security officers.
Community
Minneapolis union couple bicycles 12,000 miles, documents workers’ lives
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Minneapolis union members Anne and David Winkler-Morey spent 14 months bicycling 12,200 miles around the perimeter of the United States, talking with people, taking photos and documenting workers’ lives. They will discuss their trip at a program in Minneapolis Thursday, Jan. 31.