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.”
Community
Poverty Doesn’t Create Jobs
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In the richest nation on earth, it’s wrong for anyone who works full time to live in poverty. Yet millions of Americans who work a 40-hour week are unable to lift their families out of poverty. Imagine supporting your family on just $14,500 a year. That’s what a full-time, minimum-wage job pays. Wages come to less than $279 a week – and that’s before taxes.
Community
Gov. Dayton rallies support for preserving Saturday mail delivery
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Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton joined more than 100 demonstrators outside the main post office in Minneapolis yesterday, leading the call for federal lawmakers to strengthen – not dismantle – the U.S. Postal Service.
Policy
SEIU Local 26 victory moves working poor closer to middle class
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Renita Whicker, a security officer in downtown Minneapolis, raised three children while taking chances that all would remain healthy. Her job didn’t provide health benefits or pay enough for her family to afford health insurance.