Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/community/page/55/)
With poverty rising, joblessness high and incomes flat, more and more people are forced to turn to food banks for help. That spurred the National Association of Letter Carriers to seek a record in its nationwide food drive Saturday, May 8.
Citizens will join fair elections advocate “Granny D” and Duluth Mayor Herb Bergson in a march billed as “A Call to Consciousness that a Better World is Possible.” It’s part of the Free Democracy Summit featuring numerous workshops, cultural activities and other events this weekend.
Starting Gate Productions is offering two-for-one tickets for union members attending the Thursday, April 22, production of ?The Grapes of Wrath.?
For decades, the circumstances of Lewis Bradford?s death ? and the commitment to working people that defined his life ? was unknown, even to many members of his own family. But through a new ?jazz opera? to be performed this month by Macalester College students, his story is receiving long overdue recognition.
?Our Fight for Health Care: Workplace, Community and National Strategies? is the theme of the 12th annual ?Meeting the Challenge? conference May 1 at Macalester College.
This year?s Nellie Stone Johnson Scholarship Dinner did more than provide college scholarships to 14 students. The annual event raised more than $20,000 and attracted more than 300 people.
Contributions to striking transit workers are reaching the $100,000 mark, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 announced. Meanwhile, talks between the union and the Metropolitan Council continued late Monday, with no word on whether progress was being made.
Union plumbers and contractors will hold a ?Water?s Off? blitz on April 17 ? providing safety inspections and performing minor plumbing repairs for low-income seniors and disabled homeowners in the Twin Cities.
A free workshop for union stewards and activists will address HIV/AIDS issues on the job. It takes place March 24 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the St. Paul Labor Centre, 411 Main St.
In a show of solidarity with striking transit workers, union locals and individual union members have donated more than $15,000 to Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005’s strike fund and to a union food shelf.