Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/29/)
Tucked away in an omnibus policy bill making its way through the Minnesota House are a series of provisions designed to make it easier for laid-off workers to access their unemployment benefits.
Sen. Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, a union carpenter, announced at the St. Louis County DFL Convention in Duluth Saturday that he will end his bid for the DFL endorsement for governor.
Tax season is here and low- and moderate-income families could save on taxes or even get a tax refund through tax credits when filing federal and state tax returns.
Governor Pawlenty made substantial across the board cuts to many programs in the bonding bill, including reducing the $1 billion request for construction projects by $319 million.
Hundreds of Building Trades members — many of them unemployed — packed the State Capitol rotunda Wednesday to call on the Governor and legislature to pass a $1 billion bonding bill and other job-creating legislation. The rally was loud and the voices echoing in the halls of the capitol rang out strong with urgency and emotion.
Economists say the economic stimulus package, President Obama’s first major legislative victory, is working. According to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit Washington think tank, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has generated more than 2 million jobs since its passage one year ago, including about 9,000 new jobs in Minnesota.
Executives from U.S. Bank agreed to meet with Rosalina Gavilan Gomez, a janitor at U.S. Bancorp in Minneapolis who cleans the office of U.S. Bancorp President and CEO Richard K. Davis. Gavilan Gomez had planned to deliver a letter to Davis, asking him for help to save her home — a home foreclosed on by U.S. Bank.
For the nation’s construction unions, President Barack Obama’s announcement of $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees to speed the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Georgia means one thing: Jobs.
Minnesota unions are lauding the Minnesota House’s passage of a bonding bill that will build and rejuvenate infrastructure around the state and create thousands of jobs.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and two other union leaders have criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling opening the political ad floodgates to cascades of corporate campaign cash – even though the federation’s legal brief sided with the corporate plaintiffs on free speech grounds.