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A total of 31 states and the District of Columbia have prevailing wage laws. Such laws go back as far as 1891. The federal Davis-Bacon Act, on which many state laws are patterned, was signed into law in 1931.
Auto Workers are taking their fight to save jobs at the St. Paul Ford plant to the state Capitol. To hear the announcement by UAW Financial Secretary Bob Killeen click here. (mp3 file)
A community food drive will be held Thursday, Feb. 1, on the Rochester picketline where 19 hotel workers are protesting their unfair termination by the Holiday Inn Express Downtown.
Qualified individuals can have their tax forms prepared for free by certified tax preparers, the Community Services Program of the St. Paul Trades & Labor Assembly announced.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a minimum wage increase Wednesday – the first boost in the wage in 10 years.
With a possible vote Wednesday on a higher federal minimum wage, several organizations have launched a call-in campaign to Congress.
In the 2007 legislative session, United Food & Commercial Workers Local 789 will advocate for a Packinghouse Workers Bill of Rights to protect employees in the country\’s most dangerous industry.
After six years, labor ally Mark Dayton leaves the U.S. Senate just the way he came in: speaking frankly about the issues of the day and independently voting his conscience.
Some 38,000 UAW members — 46 percent of the 83,000-member union workforce — have agreed to accept buyouts that Ford Motor Co. and the union negotiated earlier this year, according to the company.
Stacy Mitchell, the author of a revealing new book about "Big Box" retailers, will speak Saturday, Nov. 11, at Macalester College.