Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/50/)
Building Trades locals are ramping up public pressure in an attempt to get the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School Board to quit accepting bids from contractors who are undercutting area wages and benefits.
The United Food and Commercial Workers union is demanding full disclosure of documents regarding a news report that says ousted top Wal-Mart executive Thomas M. Coughlin used up to $500,000 for anti-union activity.
Graduate employees at the University of Minnesota ?– for the third
time in 15 years ?– have rejected union representation.
Healthcare workers at Allina-owned Owatonna Hospital voted overwhelmingly (53-34) to become members of SEIU Local 113.
Balloting is under way among University of Minnesota graduate employees, to determine whether they will be represented by GradTRAC/UE Local 1105.
With 81 percent of the vote, Service Employees International Union Local 880 of Chicago won the right to represent an estimated 49,000 child care workers in Illinois, the American Arbitration Association confirmed on April 7.
Baldemar Velasquez, president of the AFL-CIO’s national Farm Labor Organizing Committee, will be the featured speaker April 8 at a labor solidarity event supporting Owatonna’s Centro Campesino.
The package-delivery company DHL has dumped W&A Cargo Enterprises as one of its independent contractors in the Twin Cities, “a hollow victory” against a company that refused to recognize its drivers’ decision to unionize, said Rhys Ledger, organizing director for Teamsters Joint Council 32.
In what could be one of labor’s biggest wins in years, 49,000 child care workers in Illinois are voting to affiliate with Service Employees Local 880, AFSCME District Council 31, or no union at all. Results will be released April 7.
Graduate students at the University of Minnesota-Duluth have their own list of innovative ideas for change in the labor movement.