Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/10/)
Could John Kline live on $290 per week? That’s the question several constituents from the 2nd Congressional District asked their Republican representative in the weeks leading up to the three-year anniversary of the last federal minimum-wage increase.
River Valley Action will host a forum entitled “Follow the Money: How big money influences our elections and public policy” Aug. 8, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., in Peter O’Neill Hall at Guardian Angels Church in Oakdale.
One by one, DFL state lawmakers took the podium on the opening day of the Minnesota Building and Construction Trades Council’s annual convention July 19-20 in St. Cloud. Invariably, each offered a variation on three common themes:
Negotiations are underway on what experts say will become the largest free-trade agreement in the world, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). But as important as this deal will be for workers worldwide, it has been negotiated behind closed doors, away from public scrutiny.
The windows are still papered over, but Thursday the wraps come off when a new Lunds grocery store opens at the corner of 12th and Hennepin in downtown Minneapolis.
Although Wisconsinites did not recall anti-labor Governor Scott Walker, they sent a clear message that he must be accountable, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said after Tuesday\’s historic vote.
With the bitter recall election against Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker coming down to the wire, his foe, Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, argued for getting outstanding labor support to win and “fix Wisconsin.”
As Vikings fans wearing purple and construction workers wearing orange looked on, the Minneapolis City Council Friday voted 7-6 in the final vote of approval needed for a new Minnesota Vikings football stadium to move forward.
More than 3,000 nurses and activists gathered at Daley Plaza to rock out with musician Tom Morello and call for a tax on financial speculation — a Robin Hood tax. This small sales tax on Wall Street trades could raise up to $350 billion a year to fund health care and other needs.
A raise in the minimum wage, seven days of paid sick leave and creation of a national infrastructure investment program are a few highlights of a comprehensive 330-page jobs bill two House Democrats introduced in mid-May.