Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/22/)
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.
More than 700 young workers are gathered in Minneapolis for a summit that organizers hope will inject new energy into the labor movement and put a focus on jobs.
The Teamsters used card-check recognition, as agreed upon with the company, to add almost 1,000 clerical workers at five UPS Freight terminals around the country, the union said on Aug. 24. Campaigns continue at another 80 terminals, it added.
Last spring Wisconsin’s working families took to the streets to protest an unprecedented legislative attack on union rights. Next Tuesday, voters in six Wisconsin Senate districts will take to the polls, voting in recall elections targeting six Republicans who supported Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to strip public employees of their right to bargain collectively.
The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists are making another attempt to merge, with the active encouragement of the AFL-CIO.
By just over 450 votes, the American Federation of Government Employees won a two-union runoff to represent the nation’s 43,000 airport screeners, formally known as Transportation Security Officers.
Laborers Union members and members of the community who support creating jobs by rebuilding Minnesota\’s crumbling infrastructure are gathering to "Build Minnesota So Minnesota Works!" The rally will take place on Friday, June 17, at 1:30PM on the Historic Stone Arch Bridge in Downtown Minneapolis.
Anyone clouded by cynicism about the labor movement these days ought to have been at the Italian American Club in Minneapolis April 20. Members of the National Association of Letter Carriers and others gathered there that night for a send-off for Branch 9 President Pam Donato, who is moving to Washington, D.C. to work as special assistant to NALC president Fredric Rolando.
In one of the biggest union elections in recent years, transportation security officers at the nation’s airports have voted to unionize.