Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/55/)
Rochester is poised for a building boom in its downtown, thanks to a community effort to draw more people to the area. The new Rochester Coalition for Quality Development hopes to get in on the ground floor to ensure the growth is accompanied by good jobs.
Minimum wage workers across the country will get their first pay raise in 10 years, but the legislation had a price – giving President Bush an almost free hand in Iraq.
A new organization in Rochester is promoting quality economic development and construction practices. The group, Rochester Coalition for Quality Development, will hold a kick-off rally Wednesday.
The election for U.S. Senate in Minnesota is 18 months away, but the United Steelworkers have already chosen their candidate.
Building Trades unions and the Mall of America signed the largest project labor agreement in state history Wednesday.
President George W. Bush vetoed an increase in the federal minimum wage when he rejected the latest Congressional legislation regarding Iraq.
More than 100,000 Minnesotans would receive health insurance and more than 88,000 would get employer-provided pensions if Congress passes the Employee Free Choice Act, a new study concludes.
The Minnesota House has passed a tax bill that restores some fairness to the state income tax system.
Tuesday was Equal Pay Day, the day that marks how far into the calendar year a woman must work to earn as much as a man earned last year. Even though women make up a growing portion of the workforce, they continue to make dramatically less than men.
Union leaders were pleased with the decision by Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott to basically throw in the towel on the monster anti-worker retailer\’s efforts to implant itself in New York City.