Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/39/)
Change to Win Minnesota (CtW-MN), a new state labor coalition consisting of five partner unions representing over 140,000 union members, is seeking to hire a campaigns coordinator with organizing and lobbying experience.
The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote Thursday on the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation that would make it easier for workers to join together to improve their wages and working conditions.
In an editorial in its Feb. 20, 2007, edition, the Minneapolis Star Tribune said Congress should pass legislation making it easier for workers to organize.
John Kline, the representative from Minnesota\’s 2nd district, is leading Republican opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act in Congress.
A resolution before the Minnesota Legislature and a rally in Rochester promote Congressional passage of legislation to make it easier for workers to join unions.
A new organization, HOLA (Hispanos Organizing Latino America) will hold an organizing conference Feb. 15, open to all interested union members and community activists.
Union membership in the United States declined in real numbers and as a percentage of the workforce last year, but was up slightly in both categories in Minnesota.
In an interview with Workday Minnesota, SEIU President Andy Stern, perhaps America\’s most controversial labor leader, shares his views on a range of topics, from organizing and politics to class consciousness and the war in Iraq.
Nearly 100 workers joined AFSCME Council 5 this week, boosting the union\’s membership gains to 2,600 this year.
For more than three years, workers at Cintas Corp. have been trying to organize a union, and for more than three years, management has tried many tactics – some of them illegal – to stop them from exercising their rights.