Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/51/)
By the time Audrey Buchite finished recounting her family\’s financial fall to the brink of losing their Zimmerman home, you could hear a pin drop in Sen. Norm Coleman\’s public forum on the mortgage and foreclosure crisis.
Saying Mike Ciresi "is the best candidate to beat Norm Coleman," AFSCME Council 65 endorsed him for U.S. Senate.
Joining a lengthening list of supporters among organized labor, the 180,000-member Amalgamated Transit Union endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The four candidates running for the DFL nomination to the U.S. Senate all back the Employee Free Choice Act and said Congress needs to go even farther to protect worker rights. With video
The Minnesota AFL-CIO Thursday endorsed Elwyn Tinklenberg\’s campaign for Sixth District U.S. Congress.
One of Minnesota’s largest and most politically active unions – Council 5 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees – has endorsed Al Franken to challenge incumbent Norm Coleman for U.S. Senate.
Off-year election results in state and municipal races on Nov. 6 show union voters are already energized for 2008, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says.
Election day brought wins and losses for labor-endorsed school board candidates and school levies in the Minneapolis area.
Economist and author Dean Baker will be the keynote speaker at the 24th annual meeting of the JOBS NOW Coalition Friday, Nov. 9.
Minnesotans will go to the polls Tuesday for local and school board elections in many communities across the state.