Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/community/page/20/)
Most everyone grows up learning to sing “This Land is Your Land,” written by American folksinger Woody Guthrie. You sang about the “redwood forests” and “diamond deserts” but you likely didn’t learn the little-known verses seething with Guthrie’s sharp critique of American inequality.
In the spring and summer of 1989, thousands of union members and supporters protested at Boise Cascade in International Falls, where the company had hired an out-of-state, non-union contractor to build a $535 million plant expansion. Tensions escalated. In September, hundreds of union supporters stormed the housing camp for non-union workers and burned it to the ground.
Governor Mark Dayton will be the special guest Saturday at the 9th annual “Fun(d)raiser” for the Minnesota State Retiree Council, AFL-CIO.
"Untold Stories," sponsored by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, many unions and other organizations, offers programs about the history of working people. The 2012 series runs through May 21 and features panel discussions, music, readings and more.
David Bacon, author of “Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants,” leads off the annual “Untold Stories” series Thursday with a speech at Macalester College.
March 8 marks the 101st International Women\’s Day with thousands of events occurring worldwide that celebrate women’s progress or rally against inequality. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe women are heavily using Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn to focus global attention on areas where inequalities prevail.
A year after the citizens’ uprising in Wisconsin, the Twin Cities Labor Chorus holds its first out-of-state performance Saturday, in Stockholm, Wis.
More than 200 Iron Workers and supporters conducted an area standard picket at a construction site in Lakeville Friday, to call attention to the fact that unskilled and underpaid workers are erecting the steel for a Walmart Supercenter. With video.
Labor unions across Minnesota are forging new and dynamic alliances in their communities to fight a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would ban same-sex marriage.
The 2012 Minnesota legislative session gets underway January 24 for what promises to be another bruising clash between the widely divergent views of the Republican majority in the legislature and DFL Governor Mark Dayton, allied with the legislature’s DFL minority.