Policy
Unions laud legislative action to create jobs
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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.
Policy
Unions criticize Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance
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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.
Policy
Union pension funds build new Twin Cities housing
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These days, construction cranes are a rare sight above the metro area skyline. But drive west on W. 36th St. towards Lake Calhoun and you can see a giant crane towering above the hills on Calhoun’s western shore.
Policy
Construction workers welcome large state bonding bill
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Minnesota construction workers – among the hardest hit nationally by the great recession – are encouraged by lawmakers’ plans to adopt a major infrastructure bonding bill.
Policy
Minnesota AFL-CIO calls for bold action to create jobs
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Responding to the dramatic need to get Minnesotans back to work, the Minnesota AFL-CIO called on state lawmakers to enact a series of bold proposals to create jobs and stimulate economic growth.
Policy
Election year gets underway at Tuesday’s precinct caucuses
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Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m., Minnesotans of all political stripes will gather in school gyms, churches and community centers in towns large and small for one of the nation’s grandest exercises in grassroots democracy: the Minnesota precinct caucuses.
Policy
AFL-CIO supports taxing banks to recoup bailout funds
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The AFL-CIO and the union-backed Americans for Financial Reform strongly support the Democratic Obama administration’s proposal to tax the nation’s now-very-profitable big banks to recoup the taxpayer dollars the government used to bail them out last year.
Policy
Labor Management Council to focus on resources for jobless workers
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The next luncheon of the Twin City Area Labor Management Council will feature resources for laid-off workers, employers and union officials.
Policy
Franken joins labor leaders to support job creation
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Speaking directly to 20,000 unemployed Americans, including an estimated 3,000 from his home state, U.S. Senator Al Franken pledged Friday to make job creation “our first priority and our second priority and our third priority” in the Senate this year.
Policy
Snyders Drug Stores closing; 150 to lose their jobs
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Snyders Drug Stores, a fixture in Minnesota’s retail landscape since the 1940s, announced it will cease operations Jan. 21, closing eight stores in the East Metro area and leaving 150 workers without jobs.