Policy
Minnesota AFL-CIO to hold two-day political conference
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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.
Policy
Local workers sit on sidelines while Fleet Farm builds with out-of-state, low-wage labor
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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.
Policy
Occupy movement makes its mark in the Upper Midwest
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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.
Policy
Tuesday’s election important for working people
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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.
Policy
Demonstrators challenge Minnesota businesses to stop foreclosures, create jobs
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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.
Policy
Unions tell G20 summit that economic recovery must focus on jobs
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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.
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Labor leaders join march on Minneapolis banks
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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.
Policy
Occupy movement hits Duluth
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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.
Policy
Unions to march on Minneapolis banks Saturday
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On Oct. 29 – the anniversary of the stock market crash that started the Great Depression – labor unions and working people will join Occupy Minnesota in a march on local banks.
Policy
Marching downtown Saint Paul, union nurses call for a tax on Wall Street
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The movement to hold Wall Street accountable for tanking the U.S. economy spread to downtown Saint Paul, as more than 100 delegates to the Minnesota Nurses Association’s convention marched Tuesday to raise awareness of the union’s plan to “heal” Main Street with a tax on Wall Street.