Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/53/)
A Congressional field hearing tonight will solicit public testimony on the current mortgage foreclosure crisis impacting the Twin Cities area and communities nationwide. The hearing will be at the Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, from 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Seeking to convince almost 15,000 unionists and a national television audience that they have what it takes to be the next president, seven hopefuls for the Democratic presidential nomination tried hard to show differences in an AFL-CIO-sponsored debate in Chicago Tuesday night.
Seven Democratic hopefuls will make their case Tuesday before the largest audience of this early campaign season—the 15,000 union family members expected at the AFL-CIO Presidential Candidates Forum at Chicago’s Soldier Field.
Unions that for decades have advocated for investment in the nation\’s infrastructure hope Wednesday\’s bridge collapse will finally spur action.
Organized labor is making a push to elect a union-backed candidate to replace Steve Sviggum.
On Monday afternoon, Building Trades union members met outside the offices of Swervo Development Corp. in downtown Minneapolis to protest the labor practices of the company and its owner, Ned Abdul. View a video interview from the demonstration.
A bipartisan duo of senators — Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) — proposed a major expansion of the key program that helps workers who lose their jobs to foreign imports, called Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Building Trades unions will demonstrate Monday afternoon at the site of a new project proposed by Swervo Development, then will march to City Hall to attend the Planning Commission meeting where the proposal will be heard.
With the federal minimum wage set to overtake Minnesota\’s by this time next year, state lawmakers are feeling pressure to bump the state\’s minimum wage from $6.15 to $7.75 per hour. But how far would a $1.60-per-hour increase go towards ending poverty?
Members of Minnesota Building Trades unions, meeting for their annual convention this week, celebrated progress in the 2007 legislative session. But they also expressed concern that Minnesota workers are falling behind.