Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/31/)
After nearly 40 years of serving steaks, chops and cocktails in West St. Paul, Caspers’ Cherokee Sirloin Room closed July 12. The restaurant had employed 24 members of UNITE HERE Local 17.
Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789 are picketing the new Trader Joe’s grocery store in St. Paul.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers has asked the National Mediation Board to hold a representation election for more than 2,000 fleet service, passenger service and reservation employees of AirTran Airways.
School bus drivers and bus aides at two First Student bus yards in the metro area voted four-to-one and two-to-one in two separate elections in recent weeks to organize as members of Teamsters Local 120.
United Food & Commercial Workers Local 789 filed charges against Walmart Wednesday, alleging the world\’s largest retailer violated the National Labor Relations Act by engaging in unfair labor practices at its St. Paul store.
More than 50 Machinists District 143 representatives and local activists attended a Northwest Airlines/Delta Air Lines organizing campaign strategy meeting recently at the IAM’s William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center in Maryland.
Minnesota AFL-CIO President Ray Waldron will retire Sept. 4, the state’s largest labor federation announced.
Hodan Hassan would like to have health insurance for herself and her family. Leontez Slaughter worries about safety on the job. Denise Spittler is tired of being told she can quit if she doesn’t like her wages and working conditions. With video!
The Starbucks Coffee Co. settled a complaint Monday from the National Labor Relations Board over charges of violating workers’ rights – the sixth such settlement in three years, the Starbucks Workers Union reported.
Wal-Mart workers, organizing to improve their workplaces, will rally Thursday, June 4, in St. Paul.