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AFSCME Councils 6 and 14 will hold special conventions Saturday to decide whether they should become part of a single, unified AFSCME state council. The executive boards of both councils are recommending unification.
While labor and its congressional allies energetically push legislation for card-check recognition of unions to represent workers, a group of Radical Right congressional Republicans is pushing for a card-check ban.
The two major party candidates for Congress in Minnesota?s 2nd Congressional District hold opposing views on how workers should organize.
?Wal-Mart Watch,? a new feature that airs every Monday at about 9:50 a.m. on Wendy Wilde?s radio show, will keep the heat on the nation?s largest anti-union employer.
Workers at Infinia Health Care voted to join the Services Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 113, making it the first long-term care facility in Willmar to organize.
More than 200 nurses from across the United States walked in solidarity Thursday with their colleagues at Hennepin County Medical Center whose pay raises have been postponed.
Union structures, including the AFL-CIO, are outdated in a new global environment, and must be replaced or radically restructured, Service Employees President Andrew Stern says.
Nurses will march and rally Thursday, June 24, to support their colleagues at the Hennepin County Medical Center who face a postponement of their wage increase.
In a move that could hamper labor’s new organizing techniques, the National Labor Relations Board sought briefs on the legality of procedures surrounding card checks.
In a drive that echoes a similar push launched earlier by the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees will start in June to recruit individuals who want to join the union but who don’t have a contract.