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Protest, Washington D.C. Vlad Tchompalov @tchompalov
Faced with devastating cuts to education and health care in the final days of the legislative session, Minnesotans filled the Capitol rotunda Saturday to call for a responsible budget that preserves vital services and creates jobs.
As the 2011 legislative session draws to a close, the Minnesota AFL-CIO is organizing union members and other workers to keep an eye on lawmakers.
Unions are urging members to attend town hall meetings that state lawmakers are holding with constituents.
To raise awareness about the crucial choices Minnesota legislators face during the remainder of this legislative session, Invest in Minnesota is launching a “20 Ways in 20 Days” campaign.
As lawmakers in Washington scrambled to pass a federal budget, workers at the Social Security Administration took to the streets downtown St. Paul Wednesday, warning that a government shutdown would disrupt the services they provide to the most vulnerable Americans.
The U.S. Supreme Court dug into the details of Wal-Mart’s years of discrimination against the retail behemoth’s own woman workers, trying to figure out whether those women as a class could sue the monster company.
What issues face working people at the state Legislature? How should they be addressed? Public service workers offer their views in this new video.
Federal budget cuts pose a threat to services to seniors, the disabled and families who have lost a parent or spouse, members of the American Federation of Government Employees say. The workers who provide these services demonstrated Wednesday at Social Security offices across the country, including Minneapolis.
While media attention has focused on protests against anti-labor legislation in Wisconsin, lawmakers in Minnesota have been quietly putting forth an agenda that would increase corporate giveaways and put a higher burden on working families.
By a 250-176 margin, the GOP-run House voted in the wee hours of Feb. 17 to keep, not abolish, the National Labor Relations Board. But the failure of the amendment to kill the agency still left it facing a 17.6% funding cut for the year ending Sept. 30.