Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/government/page/15/)
Protest, Washington D.C. Vlad Tchompalov @tchompalov
Fresh off of a consequential U.S. election that saw union members vote by a 2-to-1 margin to reelect Democratic President Barack Obama and retain a Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate, union leaders started planning future legislative priorities for the labor movement.
Thursday’s action by Republican legislators to reject new collective bargaining agreements for 27,700 state employees means the workers will have to await action in the next legislative session that starts in January.
Not content with controlling state legislatures and governors – and huge influence in Congress – business and its Right Wing allies are targeting the states’ supreme courts for takeover, too, two new reports and two state judges say.
Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando is challenging his union to step up its crusade to save the Postal Service, saying that “if we don’t, no one else will.”
More than 8,000 members of the National Association of Letter Carriers are gathered in Minneapolis this week for the biennial convention of the union.
Minnesotans voting November 6 will be asked to vote yes or no on a constitutional amendment to radically alter the way Minnesota votes.
The incredible storm that hit the region on the first day of summer dumped as much as a foot of rain on areas. Every river, stream and rivulet overflowed, creating havoc along the way, especially in Duluth, which has a 600-foot drop in about a mile.
Minnesota Democratic Rep. Tim Walz is tried to haul the highway-mass transit bill out of the congressional partisan ditch – and he may have done so in a way the House’s ruling Republicans don’t realize will help workers.
The St. Paul City Council will consider a labor-backed resolution opposing corporate personhood at its meeting Wednesday.
A conference committee will work out differences in a bonding bill passed Monday by both houses of the Legislature, while a measure to fund a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings passed the House and awaits action in the Senate.