Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/27/)
The Service Employees International Union will “refocus” itself by pumping $4 million into organizing African-American and Latino workers, adding more money to its political campaign chest for selected races, and by trying to repair relations with the rest of organized labor – with one exception – says new President Mary Kay Henry.
Forty home health and hospice workers at North Memorial Home Health and Hospice voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to unite with the 17,000 members of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota, the union announced.
The AFL-CIO Organizing Institute will host a three-day training for union members May 21-23 in St. Paul.
Service Employees President Andy Stern announced he will resign as head of the 2.2-million-member union. He set no date but an SEIU spokeswoman said he will leave “within a month.”
Registered Nurses working for HealthEast Home Care have voted to organize and join the Minnesota Nurses Association.
On May 21, the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service will sponsor another in its series of educational programs for working women.
Despite a high number of votes for the International Association of Machinists, the election for 91 flight simulator technicians at the recently merged Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines was declared invalid by the National Mediation Board when fewer than 50 percent plus one of eligible employees participated.
Meeting with Transportation Security Administration officers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Monday, Senator Al Franken pledged support for the officers’ organizing drive and said he supports their right to negotiate a union contract.
The National Mediation Board has mailed telephone and Internet voting instructions to nearly 100 Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines flight simulator technicians, opening a three week voting period in the first Machinists Union election since Delta acquired Northwest.
Union membership in the United States stayed steady from 2008 to 2009, but dipped in Minnesota, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.