Community
Wal-Mart documentary screens this week in Twin Cities
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WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price, a newly released documentary about the giant retailer, is being shown by two labor organizations this week in the Twin Cities.
Community
‘Great Activist Get-Together’ Saturday night
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Twin Cities activists from diverse communities will gather at Macalester College on Sat., Nov. 12. “The Great Activist Get-Together” will offer a chance for people to network, share visions, and have fun.
Community
Wal-Mart film kicks off Labor & Community Film Series
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WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price, a newly released feature film, takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities. A free screening of the film Nov. 16 will kick off the 2005-2006 Labor & Community Film Series.
Organizing
Three unions fight to represent NWA flight attendants
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Two unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO are trying to oust the independent union that represents flight attendants at Northwest Airlines.
Organizing
NLRB nails Cintas with dozens of labor law violations
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The recent National Labor Relations Board complaint against Cintas, charging the nation’s largest uniform and commercial laundry with violating federal labor law at 19 plants nationwide, is unusual in both its size and scope.
Organizing
Teamster carhaul drivers regain lost work in Cottage Grove
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Nearly five years after a nonunion carhauler took jobs from about 50 Teamsters’ drivers at a railhead here, two union carhaulers have regained more than half the work.
Organizing
Labor federations make progress on cooperation agreement
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The AFL-CIO and Change to Win are citing progress toward an agreement to allow the two labor federations to cooperate at the state and local level.
Organizing
MV Transit workers organize
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Workers at a privately-owned suburban bus company, MV Transit, will become members of the Amalgamated Transit Union.
Government
HCMC clericals say yes to union
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After a three-month campaign to collect union authorization
cards, 567 clerical workers at Hennepin County Medical Center now
will be represented by Council 5 of the American Federation of State County
and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
Community
Arts, media unions announce new collaboration
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Ten unions in the arts, entertainment, media and telecommunications industries will create a new Industry Coordinating Committee to build power for workers in these industries in the face of rapid media consolidation and massive technological shifts.