Policy
Pay equity changed lives
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For women who got pay equity raises, it made a huge difference – then and now.
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Pay equity’s success remains fragile, underappreciated
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Despite its achievements, pay equity didn’t accomplish everything supporters expected.
Policy
Gap between CEO and worker pay grows even larger
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How large is the pay gap between America’s CEOs and the rest of us? Try this: The “median” CEO earns the equivalent of your yearly pay, every day.
Policy
For minimum-wage earners in Minnesota, ‘a constant juggling act’
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The state legislator spending a week on minimum wage met Thursday with three Minnesotans for whom the minimum-wage challenge is an everyday reality.
Policy
Local 17 urges calls, e-mails to save jobs of cafeteria workers
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UNITE HERE Local 17 urges immediate phone calls and e-mails to help save the jobs of four longtime cafeteria workers at the BAE plant in Fridley.
Policy
Five days on minimum wage: Rep. Metsa goes grocery shopping
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Peanut butter or jelly? Juice or coffee? Dry spaghetti or ravioli in a can? Those aren’t decisions Rep. Jason Metsa usually wrestles with in the grocery store, but the Iron Range DFLer is tightening his belt this week after signing a pledge to live on Minnesota’s minimum wage of $7.25 per hour for five days.
Policy
Minnesota lawmaker accepts challenge to live on minimum wage
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As legislation to raise the minimum wage to $9.95 makes its way through the Minnesota Legislature, Rep. Jason Metsa, DFL-Virginia, is taking up Working America’s challenge to live on Minnesota’s current minimum wage for five days.
Policy
Unions praise governor’s bonding proposal during Working Families Day on the Hill
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Union members organized by the AFL-CIO participated in a Working Families Day on the Hill Monday at the state Capitol and urged lawmakers to adopt Governor Mark Dayton’s jobs and infrastructure bonding proposal.
Policy
If you worked in 2012, don’t miss claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit
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If you worked in 2012, you may be eligible for federal and state tax credits that will put money back in your pocket. You could be eligible to get money back from the IRS — as much as $5,891.
Policy
MN Building Trades Lobby Day- Trades rally at state capitol for jobs
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“Come on, let’s make some noise!” The crowd filling the State Capitol rotunda and two levels of balconies roared out in loud reply to Harry Melander, president of the Minnesota State Building and Construction Trades Council, as he led-off a March 14 rally.
“Thank you for coming,” Melander told hundreds of Building Trades union members. “It’s a much different place here this year — and it’s due to you.”