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The Carlton County Central Labor Body is sponsoring the state’s longest Labor Day celebration, beginning Thursday, Aug. 28, and running through Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 1. Highlights include a parade, picnic and fireworks.
This Labor Day, the St. Paul Trades & Labor Assembly will host a “home-grown version” of last year’s extravaganza, featuring nationally known speakers, workshops and music.
Due to the high demand for tickets, the Guthrie Theater has added 18 performances of ?Nickel and Dimed,? Joan Holden?s penetrating, funny and often harrowing account of what it?s really like to live in low-wage America.
Can a predominately middle-class theater audience understand not only the reality of low-wage work, but also their own complicity in the exploitation that takes place? That?s what the Guthrie Lab tries to find out in its production of ?Nickel and Dimed,? a stage adaptation of Barbara Ehrenreich?s best-selling book.
Visit the newly revamped “House of Labor” at the Minnesota State Fair.
The Guthrie Theater is staging a production based on the bestselling book, ?Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.? Author Barbara Ehrenreich documents her experiences while trying to make ends meet on the type of low-wage, service-sector jobs that are beginning to dominate the American economy.
On July 14, dozens of people participated in a first-time script reading of “Remembering Charlie Luth,” a play by Christine Frank. Workday Minnesota has exclusive photos from the performance.
Visitors to the Minnesota AFL-CIO booth at the State Fair could notice some subtle but dynamic changes this year as participating unions combine their activities and message.
Are union principles worth dying for? That?s one of the questions in a new play, ?Remembering Charlie Luth,? which makes its debut July 14 in a free, one-time performance at the Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul.
A free map highlighting road work scheduled in Minnesota this year is available statewide, courtesy of the Laborers District Council of Minnesota and North Dakota, and LECET ? the Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust in Minnesota.