Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/54/)
Working families and members of civil rights, community and religious groups are highlighting the freedom to form unions, as they celebrate International Human Rights Day Dec. 10, the anniversary of the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
Service Employees President Andrew Stern’s plan to radically reform or blow up the AFL-CIO is drawing a combination of strong support from central labor councils and one state fed chief–along with a little flak.
Instructors at the Minnesota School of Cosmetology, Inc., have voted to be represented by United Food & Commercial Workers Local 789.
The Hennepin County Board unanimously approved an agreement
with the Minnesota Nurses Association that would recognize a
nurses union at Hennepin County Medical Center if a majority of the
nurses there sign union authorization cards.
Unions protested Wednesday outside a meeting of the non-union Associated Builders & Contractors, where an out-of-state contractor was being honored for making inroads into Minnesota construction.
Workers at the Borders Bookstore in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis voted to ratify a contract proposal, signing only the second collective bargaining agreement in the company’s more than 1,200 stores.
Faced with the impact of labor’s political loss on Nov. 2, the AFL-CIO Executive Council decided on Nov. 10 on a timeline for changes in the union movement, with key decisions to come at its meeting in Los Angeles in mid-February.
An active leader in the effort to organize workers at the Cintas Corp. was fired because he blew the whistle on health and safety problems at the company?s Eagan plant, a union charged Thursday.
It’s official — three AFSCME councils in Minnesota have merged to form a new organization: AFSCME Council 5. Eliot Seide was named the council’s executive director.
Health care workers at Allina-owned St. Francis Medical Center voted 108-78 on Thursday to become members of Service Employees International Union Local 113. The vote covers more than 230 workers including pharmacy techs, housekeeping, dietary, health unit coordinators, and nursing assistants.