Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/53/)
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.
A social studies teacher and union member was elected in a special election Tuesday in a southeast Minnesota legislative district.
Workers celebrated the first increase in the federal minimum wage in 10 years Tuesday, but said it still won\’t be enough to bring every family out of poverty.