Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/community/page/31/)
Set out a few cans of food in a bag by your mailbox Saturday morning, May 9, and your letter carrier will pick it up. Food collected will supply emergency foodshelves during this time of increasing economic hardship.
The “Untold Stories” series continues Thursday, May 7, with poet Mark Nowak reading from his new collection, Coal Mountain Elementary, and the Twin Cities Labor Chorus conducting its premiere performance.
National and state policies threaten to undermine workers’ hard-won economic gains and security, said participants in activities on May 1, International Workers Day.
The Minnesota State Retiree Council, AFL-CIO, will hold its Sixth Annual Fun(d) Raiser on Saturday, April 25, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 10 Hall, 1681 Cope Avenue in Maplewood.
The nation’s two biggest postal unions urged lawmakers to help the U.S. Postal Service back to a sound financial footing, through a technical legal fix involving present funding for future retirees’ health care, rather than let the service cut post offices, fire workers and drop one day of mail service.
“Untold Stories,” the award-winning labor history series sponsored by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, celebrates its 11th anniversary with over a month of lectures, tours, performances and more.
The Painters and Allied Trades for Children’s Hope Foundation, or PATCH, presented Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota with a gift of $75,000 to sponsor a “private room” for recovering children and their families in the new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit currently under construction.
Minnesota’s first Holiday Lights in the Park display, sponsored by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and King of Kings Church in Woodbury, raised $50,000 for four charities.
Last year Greater Twin Cities United Way’s annual “Claim It!” tax-prep program helped working people and their families collect, on average, $2,200 in tax credits. The program is back in 2009, and you may be eligible for free tax preparation if your individual income is at or below $30,000, or if your household income is at or below $43,000.
The Twin Cities Labor Chorus is seeking interested singers for its next rehearsal Tuesday, Feb. 10, in St. Paul.