Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/20/)
Workers and their supporters from across the Twin Cities staged a demonstration outside the Verizon Store in Roseville Thursday afternoon as part of the Communications Workers of America’s “Verizon National Day of Action.” The demonstration drew more than 30 people, who held signs and banners warning consumers about Verizon\’s corporate greed.
Graduate student workers employed at the University of Minnesota begin voting Monday whether to be represented by a union.
By a 3-to-1 margin, employees of GCA Services Group at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport voted Wednesday in favor of forming a union. The 162 workers will be represented by Teamsters Local 120.
In one of the largest organizing drives in Minnesota in years, 4,500 University of Minnesota graduate assistants will vote this month whether to join a union.
In yet another mark of the AFL-CIO’s new emphasis on supporting low-wage workers – often those unprotected by labor law – in their campaigns to organize, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka spent a two-day swing through California lauding car wash workers, home health care aides, domestic workers and day laborers for their success in self-organizing.
More than 200 Iron Workers and supporters conducted an area standard picket at a construction site in Lakeville Friday, to call attention to the fact that unskilled and underpaid workers are erecting the steel for a Walmart Supercenter. With video.
Congressman Keith Ellison, DFLer representing Minnesota’s 5th District, will headline a rally Monday, Feb. 13, in support of University of Minnesota graduate student workers who are organizing a union.
Working America, the AFL-CIO\’s community affiliate, is reaching out to college students with a labor movie night Thursday, Feb. 9, at the University of Minnesota.
University of Minnesota graduate student workers took two keys steps in their union-building drive Tuesday, simultaneously asking the administration to recognize their union and filing to schedule a union election.
With more than 65,000 students and 25,000 employees spread across five University of Minnesota campuses, it would be easy to overlook Scott Thaller, Sarah Nelson, Brandon Wu and their colleagues. But these graduate student workers, who conduct important research and teaching, are critical to the university’s success.