Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/49/)
SEIU Local 26 will commemorate the 15th anniversary of the first Justice For Janitors campaign with a march through downtown Minneapolis Wednesday, June 15. The Twin Cities march will begin at 11:30 a.m. at the United Labor Centre, 312 Central Ave. SE, and end with a 12:30 p.m. rally at the Hennepin County Government Center.
On Wednesday, two days before they are scheduled to vote in a union election, workers at Richfield Health Center will be joined by community supporters for a rally.
Community members and members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 284 will fill a Minneapolis School Board meeting today to demand safe, accountable student transportation.
It was only four people in the production department, but you would have thought it was 400 the way management at the Star Tribune tried to prevent them from forming a union.
Let’s not kid ourselves, the AFL-CIO’s national organizing director says. Whether we realize it or not, we’ve lost the right to unionize in the United States ? and it’s our duty to win it back.
It has been 50 years since the American Federation of Labor merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations to form the largest labor federation in U.S. history. Four Minnesota labor leaders who were closely involved in the merger will speak Monday, May 23, as part of the “Untold Stories” labor history series.
Stuart Acuff, the AFL-CIO’s national organizing director, will be keynote speaker for a statewide organizing conference May 18-19.
The 100th birthday of the Wobblies, the labor organization advocating “one big union” for all workers, will be commemorated with readings and a history tour.
They started in the mining district around Butte, Mont. They were the forerunners, in the U.S., of the industrial union movement. They openly challenged capitalism. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Industrial Workers of the World, the leading radical labor movement in the early 20th century.
A plan to revamp the AFL-CIO, issued by its top three leaders, calls for more money for organizing and mobilizing, year-round issues campaigns, more coordinated strategic organizing and voluntary union mergers. But some top union officers say the plan fails to devote enough resources to organizing.