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Protest, Washington D.C. Vlad Tchompalov @tchompalov
Bringing to an end a long and bitter controversy, the Senate on Tuesday filled all five National Labor Relations Board seats with permanent members, ensuring the board can go ahead and govern worker-management relations for 85 million U.S. workers, most of them in the private sector.
The Senate will vote this week on all five of President Obama’s nominees – three Democrats and two Republicans – for National Labor Relations Board seats, Senate Labor Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said.
Union members are lauding the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, paving the way for the federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
Labor, progressive, faith and other organizations will hold a “People’s Party” Thursday on Harriet Island in St. Paul to celebrate the accomplishments of the 2013 legislative session.
In split votes, the Senate Labor Committee on Wednesday approved Democratic President Barack Obama’s five nominees – three Democrats and two Republicans – for seats on the National Labor Relations Board.
Minnesota’s working families will see the most obvious fruits of the 2013 legislative session in their public schools and property-tax bills, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg of investments, reforms and initiatives passed by labor-endorsed majorities in the Legislature this year, union leaders said.
MAPE, the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, and AFSCME Council 5 denounced the corporate-backed “United for Jobs” initiative as a misleading and deceptive paid advertising campaign.
A top union leader who worked closely with Thomas Perez, President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the nation’s next Secretary of Labor, says Perez can bring labor and progressive firms together, as Perez did in Maryland.
The National Labor Relations Board will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a ruling earlier this year that retroactively stripped the board, starting in 2012, of its power to decide any labor-management cases.
With no advance public notice or public hearing, the Anoka County board voted 4-2 Feb. 12 to rescind its 23-year-old policy supporting prevailing wage on county-funded construction projects.