Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/21/)
AFSCME Council 5 and SEIU Local 284, the unions seeking to represent child care providers, slammed Ramsey County Judge Dale Lindman’s decision to delay a union election among the providers.
An Oct. 19 protest by Minneapolis Building Trades members questioning the use of out-of-state, non-union labor for the Medline project in Rogers has produced a result.
Efforts to derail a union vote by child care providers are frivolous and won’t stand up in court, organizers for AFSCME said.
Incumbent Teamsters President James Hoffa was re-elected to a 4th term in final results announced by an independent overseer Nov. 18.
Radio ads in key markets will soon be airing that expose the troubling labor practices of a mega-retailer in Minnesota.
Governor Mark Dayton issued an executive order Tuesday authorizing a union election among licensed, in-home child-care providers who participate in the state’s Child Care Assistance Program.
The United Food and Commercial Workers gained its second big union recognition election win at a meatpacker in two weeks on Nov. 4, just before the union and an international union federation met to discuss the impact of increasing concentration of the retail grocery industry into just a few megafirms.
Twins catcher Joe Mauer has a union contract. The same can’t be said for electricians wiring a new service facility at Mauer Chevrolet in Inver Grove Heights, owned by Joe’s brother Billy Mauer.
Some 103 workers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport have joined UNITE HERE Local 17, while bartenders employed by the Historic Theatre Group in downtown Minneapolis also are seeking representation, the union reported.
Halima Said, Michelle Kavanaugh and Eric Clinton live thousands of miles apart, but they share a common belief that young people can and will make a difference.