Community
Wisconsin AFL-CIO raising funds for workers’ fight
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The Wisconsin AFL-CIO has set up a "Worker Defense Fund" to support efforts to stop Governor Scott Walker\’s anti-worker agenda.
Community
Fundraiser planned for fired retail cleaning workers
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Supporters will conduct a fundraiser Tuesday for 12 fired retail cleaning workers and will call on their former employer, Lunds & Byerly’s stores, to meet with the workers.
Community
Unions express dismay over Arizona shootings
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Union officials expressed shock and dismay over the shootings Saturday in Tucson, Arizona, that critically injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, killed six people and injured 19 others.
Community
Musical ‘Billy Elliot’ takes place with backdrop of pivotal 1984 British mineworkers strike
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For the musical “Billy Elliot,” Elton John composed a new take on the union anthem “Solidarity Forever.” That’s just one of the powerful songs he wrote to tell the story of a young boy’s quest to follow his passion, set amidst the 1984 strike by the British National Mineworkers Union.
Community
After nine years, 9/11 heroes get some help
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Nine years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, more than 10,000 heroes who were exposed to toxic debris during the cleanup of the World Trade Center will receive between $625 million and $712 million under a settlement agreement negotiated with New York City and its contractors.
Community
Union volunteers renovate home for returning veterans
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Labor leaders joined union contractors, Ramsey County officials and representatives of veterans-service organizations for a Veterans Day ceremony outside Birmingham Place, a formerly vacant property purchased and rehabilitated to house returning soldiers as they transition into civilian life.
Community
Retail cleaning workers seek to reverse decline in wages
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Retail cleaning workers in the Twin Cities have seen their wages and working conditions deteriorate severely over the last decade. On Saturday several cleaning workers will march with community allies in Minneapolis, calling on prominent retailers to commit to reversing that trend.
Community
Union book author to speak in St. Paul
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Nurse-author Tim Sheard is the author of a four-book series of crime novels featuring Lenny Moss, hospital shop steward-detective.
Community
Social Justice Film Festival Saturday at the U
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Several University of Minnesota departments and organizations are sponsoring a series of films with a social justice theme Saturday, Oct. 16, on the Minneapolis campus.
Community
Union electricians take part in Habitat for Humanity
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Union electricians, members of Local 110 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, are among 2,000 volunteers participating in Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity’s push to build or rehabilitate dozens of houses in Minneapolis and St. Paul this week.