Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/14/)
Union leaders split on President Barack Obama’s Jan. 18 denial of a federal permit to build the 1,700-mile Keystone XL oil pipeline from the U.S.-Canada border to the Texas Gulf Coast. Construction unions called Obama’s ruling a “job killer,” but at least five unions sided with environmental groups against Keystone.
Steelworkers President Leo Gerard and Auto Workers President Bob King spent their time at a Jan. 11 White House summit focusing on investment in infrastructure and manufacturing, the Steelworkers said.
Infrastructure investments, workforce training initiatives and tax credits for businesses that hire unemployed Minnesotans are among the proposals included in a jobs plan floated by Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and DFLers in the Legislature.
With two weeks to go until the final deadline for gathering names, the labor-backed campaign to recall GOP Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin reached its needed minimum of 508,240 signatures.
The 2012 Minnesota legislative session gets underway January 24 for what promises to be another bruising clash between the widely divergent views of the Republican majority in the legislature and DFL Governor Mark Dayton, allied with the legislature’s DFL minority.
He beat out some tough competition, but Rob Walton, chairman of Wal-Mart’s board of directors, is the top vote getter in the 11th annual Jobs with Justice “Scrooge of the Year” election.
Despite a down economy and millions out of work, the nation’s largest banks are getting ready to hand out end-of-year bonus checks to their CEOs, CFOs and other top executives. And this year, total bonuses and compensation are expected to be even higher than last year.
More than 28,000 Minnesotans will lose their unemployment benefits on Dec. 31 if Congress fails to act to extend unemployment insurance, a new report by the AFL-CIO shows.
With millions of hardworking Americans slated to lose unemployment insurance at year’s end, efforts continue to keep pressure on Congress to preserve this emergency lifeline.
Eleven activists including the Rev. Paul Slack, pastor of New Creation Church were arrested in an act of non-violent civil disobedience on Thursday as a crowd of about 400-500 marchers demanding good jobs shut down traffic on the 10th Avenue bridge during the evening rush hour.