Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/34/)
The AFL-CIO will re-launch its “McCain Revealed” campaign in dozens of cities this month, focusing on Arizona Sen. John McCain’s health care and economic plans. But unionists in Michigan and Minnesota already have a head start.
In talking to individual Carpenters at Tuesday’s jobs rally, their personal circumstances may be different, but the basic story is the same.
The Minnesota House of Representatives passed a resolution today urging Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, union-backed legislation to strengthen the rights of workers to form unions.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 40 years ago this week in the midst of a campaign to support striking Memphis sanitation workers who were trying to gain better pay and working conditions by joining a union.
With 76 percent turnout, nurses at Buffalo Hospital in Buffalo, Minn., voted by a 9-1 margin to join the Minnesota Nurses Association. "This was the right time," said Gale Syverson, who has worked 22 years at the hospital.
By unanimous vote of the department\’s Executive Council, the Laborers have rejoined the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department, Laborers President Terry O\’Sullivan and new Building Trades President Mark Ayers said.
Some 17,000 child care providers across the state of New York voted overwhelmingly to form a union and join CSEA/Child Care Providers Together–New York (CCPT-NY/CSEA), an affiliate of AFSCME.
Workers at the notoriously anti-union Dakota Premium meatpacking plant in South St. Paul will take a decertification vote Friday, Jan. 25. Their union, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789, will hold a plant-gate action to distribute fliers the evening before the vote takes place.
Security officers represented by Service Employees International Union Local 26 and supporters will march Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Day and to seek justice on the job.
The windchill was minus six degrees at noon Monday as about 20 members and staff of SEIU Local 26, some wearing ice skates, some wearing boots, played hockey on the ice at Centennial Lakes Park. Their presence sought to dramatize that workers at Hannon Security Services are "on thin ice" without access to affordable health care.