Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/19/)
Check out the Workday coverage of the recent Minnesota AFL-CIO convention:
Union members roll up their sleeves to defend worker rights
Young workers showing new ways to lead
Governor says it’s time to go on the offense
Opposition to amendments takes center stage
Co-president of newly merged entertainment union brings message of unity
The president of one of the nation’s largest entertainment and media unions brought a message of unity and solidarity to the Minnesota AFL-CIO convention.
About 70 workers at Park River Estates Care Center in Coon Rapids are the newest members of AFSCME Council 5 after winning a union election in June.
In an election that marked the changing of the guard at one of the nation’s biggest and most politically active unions, AFSCME convention delegates elected Lee Saunders as the union’s new President and running mate Laura Reyes to succeed Saunders as Secretary-Treasurer.
Kevin Bruch regularly puts his life on the line – and saves live and property – in his job as a Brooklyn Park firefighter. But because he only works part-time, he has not been eligible to unionize and makes a lower hourly wage than many workers in less dangerous jobs.
Overriding company objections and another attempt to stall, the National Mediation Board gave the go-ahead to the union recognition election the Communications Workers sought for 10,000 passenger service agents at American Airlines. Voting via the Internet and electronically, will run from June 21-Aug. 2.
Saying Target illegally threatened to close its Valley Stream, Long Island, store if United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500 won a recognition vote there, a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge ordered a rerun election at the 268-worker store.
Chris Koecher believes young workers need to have their voices heard – and he is taking action as part of CWA’s Next Generation.
The two unions hoping to represent child care providers in Minnesota voiced disappointment with a Ramsey County District Judge’s decision to halt an election among the workers.
Graduate student workers at the University of Minnesota voted 1,857-1,142 against union representation, in results announced Monday by the state Bureau of Mediation Services.