Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/33/)
After 15 years, three elections and rampant company labor law-breaking during the campaigns before the first two, the United Food and Commercial Workers finally won recognition at Smithfield company\’s giant pork processing and packing plant in Tar Heel, N.C.
The Starbucks Workers Union picketed the Mall of America on Black Friday to draw attention to the plight of the nation\’s retail workers on the busiest shopping day of the year.
Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, to help level the playing field between workers and bosses in union organizing and bargaining, will be labor\’s top priority in the new 111th Congress, top AFL-CIO officials said. But roadblocks remain for the legislation.
As the world\’s largest coffee company announced plans to close 27 stores statewide, several baristas in the Twin Cities announced plans of their own to fight back. Those plans begin with forming a union.
Mike Hawthorne will be the new business manager for the Minneapolis Building and Construction Trades Council, effective July 1, following the resignation of David Ybarra II. Hawthorne is a 25-year member of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 1 Minnesota/North Dakota.
Workers at the newest hotel in Minneapolis, Hotel Ivy, have signed union cards and organized as part of UNITE HERE Local 17.
The University of Minnesota Labor Education Service, in conjunction with women from a variety of labor organizations, will host a Minnesota Union Women\’s Leadership Gathering July 22 in St. Paul.
Congresswoman Betty McCollum joined labor leaders, volunteers and Working America canvassers on the streets of Little Canada on Monday, when the AFL-CIO kicked off "We are Working America" week nationwide.
Delta Air Lines flight attendants narrowly missed a chance to form a union, but with the looming Northwest-Delta merger, the Association of Flight Attendants vowed to continue organizing.
With the Liberty Bell as backdrop, Wackenhut Corporation workers from Minneapolis, Miami and Philadelphia launched a national organizing committee to demand freedom to organize and safety on the job.