Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/community/page/28/)
You can save more than 30 percent on a special holiday grocery package available for $25 from Fare for All Express. The holiday grocery packages will be available for sale Friday, Dec. 4, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the United Labor Centre, 312 Central Ave., Minneapolis.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers presents Holiday Lights in the Park, a spectacular and fun drive-through light display that raises funds to help children and adults in the Twin Cities metro area.
Ricardo Levins Morales, known for promoting the integration of art into organizing campaigns and movements for social justice, is opening his own studio and storefront art center in the Longfellow neighborhood of south Minneapolis.
Seniors living in Anoka County got help with fall yard work Sunday from a group of union volunteers and elected officials.
As the recession continues, Working Partnerships has been assisting out-of-work union members by providing $25 grocery store gift cards totalling more than $500 per week.
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, the International Association of Machinists, the Salvation Army and the Red Cross are collaborating on a 48-hour effort at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to benefit people in need.
Steve Early, author of a new book, “Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home,” will speak and sign books Saturday at Mayday Books in Minneapolis.
In the labor movement’s early years of struggle and then explosive growth that followed, solidarity was forged and fueled by singing together. Labor songs recounted wrongs, inspired hope, and provided the soundtrack for action — often with a touch of humor.
I’ve been running all my life,” says union member Tom Lucier. But Sunday, Lucier will be running in the Twin Cities Marathon for a special cause: to raise funds for leukemia research in honor of his father, who died from leukemia three years ago.