Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/26/)
Federal lawmakers tossed struggling state and local governments a lifeline this week, as Democratic majorities pushed through emergency legislation, signed by President Obama Wednesday, that will preserve the jobs of thousands of teachers, firefighters, cops and nurses across the country.
The Minnesota Association of Professional Employees endorsed Mark Dayton for governor of Minnesota Friday.
Led by the Service Employees International Union, members of the labor, faith and religious communities rallied Thursday against Target Stores’ decision to support Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer and other public officials who support anti-immigrant legislation.
AFSCME-endorsed Mark Dayton won the Democratic primary for governor by more than 6,000 votes Tuesday night. Wednesday, he stood side by side with party and labor leaders united to beat Republican Tom Emmer in November.
Minnesota’s Primary Election is Tuesday, Aug. 10. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. across the state. Voters will be picking candidates for state and local office.
Reminding union leaders of a long list of pro-worker actions by his administration – and contrasting that with the anti-union bias of his predecessor – Democratic President Barack Obama Wednesday posed the upcoming election as a clear choice between moving forward with his policies or moving back to the past.
More than two dozen union and community members met at Wellstone Hall at the Duluth Labor Temple last week to hear Stewart Acuff read from his new book, Getting America Back to Work.
The U.S. Senate Tuesday broke the Republican blockade of unemployment insurance for long-term, jobless workers — a blockade that cost more than 2 million unemployed workers their benefits.
The financial sector overhaul legislation that President Barack Obama will sign this week is good, but focuses too much on overhauling government regulation of the financiers and not enough on overhauling the industry itself, analysts said. Still, unions and consumer advocates praised the overhaul as significant.
Since the recession began 30 months ago, more than half of all adults in the workforce — 55 percent — say they have either been unemployed, taken a pay cut, had their work hours reduced or become involuntary part-time workers, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Social and Demographic Trends Project.