Legislators push unemployment benefits for striking mechanics
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Minnesota legislators are drafting bills to make striking mechanics from Northwest Airlines eligible for state unemployment and job retraining benefits.
Policy
Guild tries to find its own buyer for newspapers
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The Newspaper Guild is trying an unusual strategy to save jobs at the Pioneer Press and eight other Knight Ridder newspapers: It wants to help buy the newspapers, then set them up under employee ownership or as part of a new, “employee friendly” company.
Policy
Job openings go up, wages go nowhere
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More jobs are being created in Minnesota, but wages remain stuck at levels that cannot support a family, according to an analysis of new statistics by the JOBS NOW Coalition.
Policy
UAW pushes ‘Marshall Plan’ for auto industry
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A “Marshall Plan for the U.S. auto industry,” on a scale similar to U.S. aid to devastated Europe after World War II, was among the legislative priorities for Auto Worker delegates at their conference in Washington.
Environment
Report: China, India must find new path forward
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The rest of the world must adjust to the emergence of China and India as industrializing, demanding and growing societies, a new report says. And, in turn, China and India — who have 40 percent of the global population — must develop their economies without repeating the mistakes that the developed nations made.
Policy
St. Louis Ford closing shows impact on non-auto workers, too
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Ford’s announcement that it will close 14 auto plants and lay off 25,000 to 30,000 workers by 2008 means a lot more to a lot more workers than just the Ford employees and their families.
Environment
UAW awaits response to ‘green’ vehicle proposal
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United Auto Workers Local 879 awaits a response from Ford Motor Company to its proposal to make the St. Paul manufacturing plant a leader in producing more fuel-efficient, “green” vehicles. View the entire text of the proposal.
Government
Analysis: The questionable legacy of Alan Greenspan
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Alan Greenspan, who leaves this week as chair of the Federal Reserve, instituted policies that have worsened the U.S. trade deficit — and encouraged the deindustrialization of the United States.
Policy
No room at Ramada Inn Airport for longtime employees
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UNITE HERE Local 17 says about 25 of 70 workers it represented at the Thunderbird Hotel and Convention Center — many of them longtime employees — have been terminated during a purported management and ownership change.
Policy
Ford plant workers seek ‘green’ future
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Having heard their jobs are not on the chopping block ? at least for now ? workers at the St. Paul Ford assembly plant hope they can convince the automaker to pursue a “green” future for the facility.