Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/11/)
Thousands of Minnesotans are taking part in a “99% Week of Action” that will culminate with a rally and march Friday in downtown Minneapolis. The chief targets of the demonstrators are major banks, including US Bank and Wells Fargo.
Buoyed by a rally that featured former Minnesota Vikings running back Chuck Foreman, union members plan to jam the state Capitol Monday as legislators decide whether to fund stadium and bonding bills that would create thousands of jobs.
Union members swarmed the Minnesota Capitol in a last-ditch effort to drum up support among lawmakers for two bills that, together, would create tens of thousands of jobs for union members in the struggling construction trades.
The Republican proposal to cut state business taxes will fatten corporate profits but do nothing to boost job prospects for the unemployed, the executive director of Minnesota Citizens for Tax Justice predicted.
Minnesotans were among a crowd of more than 1,000 that nearly shut down the annual meeting of Wells Fargo & Co. to challenge the bank’s high pay for its executives while it continues to foreclose on homeowners.
Governor Mark Dayton received a standing ovation during a visit Saturday to the annual “Fun(d)raiser” for the Minnesota State Retiree Council, AFL-CIO, where he emphasized the need to build a new Minnesota Vikings stadium.
Fifty years after President John F. Kennedy signed a law pushing equal pay for equal work, the pay gap between working men and women remains wide, studies show. And for minorities, it’s a chasm.
The national AFL-CIO has launched the 2012 AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch site — called CEO Pay and the 99% — which includes the most comprehensive data accessible on 2011 executive pay. All of the data available is searchable by industry, by state and by the top 100 highest-paid CEOs.
With the 2012 session nearing an end with no action on job creation, the Minnesota AFL-CIO is calling on the Legislature to send critical construction bills to Governor Dayton’s desk.
A “Hail Mary” pass may be about the only chance the Minnesota Vikings have left to get a stadium bill passed this session.