Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/15/)
After multiple votes by Congress to block President Obama’s jobs plan, clergy, unemployed workers, and local residents will march to “Bridge the Jobs Gap” Thursday, Nov. 17, in Minneapolis.
Postal unions have launched a new TV ad that salutes our nation’s “real life heroes” and points out that a bill pending in the House of Representatives would force the Postal Service to fire tens of thousands of military veterans.
To prepare for the 2012 session of the state Legislature and the 2012 election year, the Minnesota AFL-CIO is planning a two-day training conference Nov. 15-16.
Cheap, unskilled labor is being imported to build a Mills Fleet Farm in Carver, while the company profits from a public subsidy and snubs the high-skilled craft workers who live in the project’s backyard, the Laborers union says.
The Occupy Wall Street Movement that began in New York Sept. 17 and has since spread like wildfire across the world has made an undeniable impact on the social and political climate of the Upper Midwest.
Elections for local offices and issues will be held across Minnesota on Tuesday, Nov. 8. With turnout expected to be light, every vote will count.
More than 100 Minnesotans from faith, labor and community groups rallied outside of the annual meeting of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Tuesday to demand that large banks and corporations pay their fair share of taxes, invest in good jobs, and fix the foreclosure crisis.
World leaders must pivot and focus the international economy – and its recovery – on getting workers into jobs, union leaders will tell international leaders meeting in Cannes, France.
Leaders of several Minnesota unions addressed participants in Saturday’s march against banks, held on the anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash that launched the Great Depression.
The Occupy Wall Street phenomenon that has been sweeping the country since it began in New York City Sept. 17 has arrived in Duluth. Since mid-October there has been action in the streets nearly every day.