Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/16/)
Minneapolis Building Trades members are questioning how a facility associated with Hennepin County Medical Center – one of Minnesota’s leading publicly operated health institutions – can be built by a California company using non-union, out-of-state workers.
Minnesota construction workers – who face the bleakest job outlook in the nation – will protest Wednesday at the site of a multi-million-dollar facility associated with Hennepin County Medical Center that is being built with out-of-state labor.
Thousands of Minnesotans expressed their outrage and frustration with the U.S. economy in an unprecedented series of actions, from roundtables and pickets to a massive march through downtown Minneapolis. With video.
Wisconsin residents, including many labor unions, plan to start collecting signatures on Nov. 15 to recall Republican Governor Scott Walker, which gives them a 60-day window to achieve that goal.
Hundreds of people carrying giant red foam fingers like those waved by fans at football games marched through Minneapolis’s financial district Tuesday pointing the finger at big banks, corporations and financial institutions who have sent the U.S. economy into a near death spiral.
Unemployed workers and members of faith, labor and community groups gathered for a vigil Monday evening, hoping against hope that Congress would act to create jobs. Late Tuesday, however, the U.S. Senate refused to take a vote on President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act.
As more and more Americans question how they are benefitting in today’s economy, Twin Cities community, faith and labor groups start a week of action, including a march and rally Friday to “Save the American Dream.”
Hundreds gathered on the plaza of the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis Friday, joining the nationwide movement to hold Corporate America accountable for an economy that has left the majority of Americans struggling to just get by.
Claiming to represent “the 99 percent” of Americans whom the economy is failing, protesters took over a park in New York’s Financial District two and a half weeks ago. They began staging rallies against corporate tax loopholes, income inequality and CEO compensation. And they haven’t left since.
Some of New York City’s largest unions and community groups – and labor organizations across the country – are joining the “Occupy Wall Street” protests.