Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/22/)
Making good on his campaign pledge to put Minnesotans back to work, Gov. Mark Dayton Monday unveiled plans to invest $1 billion in public projects statewide – and create 28,000 jobs in the process.
It wouldn’t be the first time they’ve agreed on the issue, but an AFL-CIO alliance with its nemesis, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to push for job-creating infrastructure projects is attracting attention.
Many politicians in both major parties have given up on the country, workers and creating jobs, AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka says – but the labor movement hasn’t.
At the state Capitol Thursday, Gretchen Gubbins put a human face on the major issues facing legislators this session: fixing Minnesota’s $6.2 billion budget shortfall and reviving the state’s sluggish economy.
The next time you buy a package of Hershey’s candy kisses, take a good look at where they’re made. Chances are, the answer is Mexico, not Pennsylvania.
If you walk into Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) next year, you won’t find a McDonald’s.
Amid the gloom and doom of pro-worker candidates going down to defeat on Nov. 2, there were a few bright spots – and none may be brighter than the slate of winners the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) fielded and backed in Wayne County, Mich.
UNITE HERE, which represents people who work as housekeepers, waiters, dishwashers and cooks in hotels and other facilities, is asking the Democratic National Convention Committee to choose Minneapolis or St. Louis as the host city of the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
The AFL-CIO is spearheading a national effort to support the millions of American workers still seeking jobs in the current recession. The federation has declared Tuesday, Dec. 7, an “Online Day of Solidarity” with jobless workers.
Entering the holiday season, unemployed construction workers find themselves in desperate times.