Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/community/page/23/)
Minnesotans seeking better working conditions for retail cleaning workers ended their 12-day hunger strike Wednesday without reaching their goal of meeting with Cub Foods management. But they vowed to continue the campaign. With video.
Saying they clean grocery stores, but often can’t afford to buy food for their families, Twin Cities retail cleaning workers launched a hunger strike.
Join a book release party and discussion Saturday, May 21, with Joe Burns, author of Reviving the Strike–How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America.
Workers who clean Twin Cities grocery stores plan to begin a hunger strike this weekend to compell management to meet and address their concerns.
Minnesotans can help restock food shelves and feed the hungry by taking part in the Letter Carriers food drive this Saturday.
Under the banner, “We Are One,” more than 100 people gathered at Duluth City Hall Monday to speak out on behalf of worker and human rights.
Washington County residents can get an overview of the state’s deficit situation and learn about the impact of proposed cuts on education, human services and health care at a “Reality Meets Rhetoric” forum Thursday evening in Oak Park Heights.
Four union members are among 16 appointments by Governor Mark Dayton to the Metropolitan Council, the governor’s office announced Wednesday.
After weeks of protest in Madison, Wis., over Governor Scott Walker’s anti-worker agenda, reporters and pundits have expended thousands of words trying to explain the confrontation. But none sums it up quite so succinctly as a joke making the rounds at lightning speed through cyberspace.
Some 50,000 people took to the streets of every single capital in America Saturday to stand with Wisconsin and demand an end to the attacks on workers and to the cuts to vital services, organizers report. With video!