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Protest, Washington D.C. Vlad Tchompalov @tchompalov
All four labor-endorsed candidates, including mayoral candidate Chris Coleman, were elected in St. Paul in Tuesday’s local elections. But organized labor’s canididate for Minneapolis mayor, Peter McLaughlin, failed to defeat incumbent R.T. Rybak.
After a three-month campaign to collect union authorization
cards, 567 clerical workers at Hennepin County Medical Center now
will be represented by Council 5 of the American Federation of State County
and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
A janitorial service company that failed to pay overtime to its employees in Hennepin County and did not pay sales taxes in Ramsey County does not deserve another chance at a county contract, the Service Employees International Union said Monday.
Tentative agreements have been reached in the last week on contracts covering state corrections workers and employees of the judicial branch.
Some public employees unions have settled while others remain in contract talks. The status of several contracts is outlined in this summary by Michael Kuchta.
While members of two unions review the details of a tentative contract for 30,000 State of Minnesota employees, leadership is praising the settlement for providing much-needed improvements.
Local unions representing more than 4,000 Hennepin County employees pledged unity as they began contract talks Monday.
Hennepin County workers will kick off their contract negotiations with a rally Monday, July 18, at noon at the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis.
The controversial Central American Free Trade Agreement tops a legislative laundry list as Congress heads towards its scheduuled August recess.
The 2005 legislative session ? and the special session in particular ? may be remembered for many things, but voters should remember that it was the DFLers in the Senate and the House who supported efforts to keep state government running.