Organizing
Cleaning workers’ campaign for justice met with violence
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A Cub Foods security officer assaulted supporters of workers who clean metro-area grocery stores when they conducted a nonviolent protest Tuesday, organizers said. With video.
Organizing
Airport security officers to vote on unionization
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After five or more long years of just being aided on things like grievances, Alan Jackimowicz, a Transportation Security Officer at Detroit’s international airport, is looking forward to getting a union that can bargain for him.
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Union membership dips nationally, but grows in Minnesota
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The nation’s union membership dipped slightly last year, but representation among Minnesota workers rose in 2010, according to figures released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Union workers at Delta hope for another chance
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Delta Air Lines employees, including thousands in Minnesota, voted this fall in a series of major union-organizing elections to determine whether they will maintain the carrier’s non-union legacy or adopt the union representation enjoyed by workers at Northwest Airlines, which Delta absorbed last year.
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Machinists charge interference after another lost election at Delta
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The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said it will present evidence that Delta Air Lines illegally interfered in the representation election by some 15,500 passenger service and reservation employees, leading to defeat of the union effort.
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Amplatz Children’s Hospital nurses join MNA
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Nurses at the University of Minnesota’s Amplatz Children’s Hospital will enjoy the benefits and security of a union contract from the day the facility opens its new riverside campus in Minneapolis next year.
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Home health aides join AFSCME
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By an overwhelming vote of 97-18, home health aides who work for Transition Health Care LLC have joined AFSCME.
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Machinists lose another Delta election, charge interference
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Delta Air Lines stock and stores workers voted down representation by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in results announced Monday. The union blames company interference in the election.
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Machinists fall short in election at Delta Air Lines
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The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers fell short of achieved the majority of votes needed to represent fleet service workers at Delta Air Lines, the National Mediation Board announced Thursday.
Organizing
Results due Wednesday in Delta flight attendant election
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Ballots will be counted Wednesday in the election to determine whether 21,000 flight attendants at Delta Air Lines will be represented by a union.