Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/23/)
Members of Working America will gather signatures in downtown Minneapolis Monday on petitions for good jobs, secure retirement, quality public education and the rights of workers to advocate for themselves on the job.
Cleaning workers and allies gathered Thursday to call on Cub Foods to end retaliation and violent reactions to peaceful protests and to meet with cleaning workers to establish a code of conduct. With video.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By an overwhelming vote of 97-18, home health aides who work for Transition Health Care LLC have joined AFSCME.
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.