Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/42/)
It’s one 10-store chain in New York City, involving 95 workers, but the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union’s win at Footco is a glimpse into the future, where unions create new strategies to organize not just stores, but communities.
Retired Teamster Al Erickson, perhaps the last surviving participant of the landmark 1934 strike that made Minneapolis a union town, has died at age 99.
Two major building trades unions ? the Laborers and Operating Engineers ? are quitting the national Building Trades and forming a new National Construction Alliance with the Bricklayers, Carpenters, Iron Workers and Teamsters, they announced Tuesday.
After nearly six months, the rift between AFL-CIO and Change to Win unions is beginning to mend in Minnesota.
The number of American workers who belong to unions rose by 213,000 in 2005, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, halting at least temporarily an erosion that has been going on for decades. However, Minnesota bucked that trend, with a drop in the state’s union membership.
As you travel about the state for work or play, the 17 unions of the Duluth
Building & Construction Trades Council would like you to remember how their
members were treated in Moose Lake.
Hennepin County ? faced with a Thursday deadline to provide evidence substantiating its challenge of the Minnesota Nurses Association’s organizing victory at Hennepin County Medical Center ? backed off the challenge and withdrew its objections to certification of the union.
Six local unions from the Change to Win Federation submitted applications for Solidarity Charters Wednesday to affirm their commitment to participation in the Minneapolis Central Labor Union Council (CLUC).
Hennepin County is trying to overturn the Minnesota Nurses Association’s organizing victory at Hennepin County Medical Center.
Wal-Mart has done it again. For the second year in a row, it won the annual “Grinch of the Year” award from Jobs With Justice.