Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/44/)
Facing the fact that many unionists may be reluctant to vote for presidential candidate Barack Obama because he is African-American, union leaders meeting in Chicago decided to confront the issue through a plan focusing on pocketbook issues.
Prospective Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama told more than 2,500 union leaders nationwide that "we can\’t do it without you" if he is to win the White House this fall and advance workers\’ causes when he gets there.
U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken added to his list of union supporters when the Minnesota State Building & Construction Trades Council endorsed him Thursday at the group\’s annual convention.
Construction union leaders from across Minnesota, meeting in their annual convention, pledged an all-out effort to put Barack Obama in the White House and elect other labor-endorsed candidates in November.
Will he or won\’t he? State Senator Tom Bakk hasn\’t decided, but if Minnesota Building Trades unions have their way, he\’ll be their candidate for governor in 2010.
With the U.S. economy sputtering toward recession, working women and their families will feel more pain than in past downturns, a new report says.
The "Bush Legacy Tour," a museum on wheels that organizers say documents the failed policies of the Bush administration, made a stop Wednesday in Minnesota.
At the age of 22, Dan Fessenden took a fateful drive down University Avenue in St. Paul, looking for a job. Initially his plan was to present himself to an employment agency and offer up a share of his wages in return for a job. But at his wife\’s suggestion, Fessenden stopped first at the Waldorf Company, the paper recycling plant that had loomed large in the city\’s Midway district since 1908.
Unions plan to protest an appearance by Republican presidential candidate John McCain in Hudson, Wis., early Friday morning.
In Minnesota and four other states, union members who are also military veterans launched the Union Veterans Council to make sure their voices are heard during this year\’s elections.