Organizing
Analysis: Split dominates labor headlines of last year
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There were many top labor stories during 2005, but the split in the AFL-CIO overrode them all. It had multiple ramifications.
Organizing
Twin Cities Cingular workers join CWA
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Local 7200 of the Communications Workers of America has signed up 534 Cingular workers at a business call center here ? the first organizing success in Minnesota under a national agreement in which Cingular grants union recognition as soon as a majority of workers sign authorization cards.
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St. Louis County, AFSCME partner to improve child care
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Significant improvements are on the way for home-based child care in St. Louis County as part of a ground-breaking partnership between a union and county government.
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Middle class in jeopardy because of worker rights violations
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The American middle class is in jeopardy because the right of workers to join unions is routinely being violated. That was the message at a Rochester teach-in and a Minneapolis rally to commemorate Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day.
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Vigil calls on Wal-Mart to ‘change for the better’
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Leaders from the faith community led a candlelight vigil Sunday night to call on Wal-Mart to “change for the better” this holiday season.
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You don’t have to look far to see how workers’ rights suffer
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Three union organizing drives, three different outcomes. But these stories of Minnesota workers all have the same result and lead to the same conclusion: U.S. labor law no longer works for workers.
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Hospital workers to kick off quality care campaign
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On Wednesday, hospital workers from across the Twin Cities and Minnesota will launch Together for Quality Care, a campaign to improve the quality and affordability of health care for their patients, families and communities.
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HCMC nurses organize with MNA
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In one of the largest union organizing wins in recent years, 1,016 Registered Nurses employed at Hennepin County Medical Center have chosen to be represented by the Minnesota Nurses Association.
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AFL-CIO clears way for ‘solidarity charters’
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Some details remain to be settled, but the AFL-CIO announced Wednesday it will begin issuing “solidarity charters” to locals whose international unions recently disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO and joined the Change to Win Federation.
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Leaked Wal-Mart memo shows callous attitude toward employees
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A leaked memo spells out in cold efficiency how enslaved Wal-Mart is to its bottom-line strategy — even if that strategy erases the middle-class standard of living that workers at America’s largest companies traditionally achieved.