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Shutdown speculation adds to apprehension at Ford plant

By tsuperadmin | December 2, 2005

Media reports that Ford has decided to shut down the Twin Cities Assembly Plant are speculative and probably unfounded, Rob McKenzie, president of UAW Local 879, said Friday.

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Auto Workers hit by Delphi cuts, GM layoffs

By tsuperadmin | November 27, 2005

United Auto Workers members were hit with a one-two punch in late November, as bankrupt Delphi Auto Parts disclosed its latest wage proposals – which would put its lowest-paid workers’ wages slightly above Wal-Mart’s average – while GM proposed shutting plants and cutting 30,000 jobs by 2007-2008.

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State Senate committee to hold hearings on soaring heating prices

By tsuperadmin | November 13, 2005

Low-wage earners and people on fixed incomes will be especially hard hit by soaring prices for natural gas and heating oil this winter. State Senator Ellen Anderson, DFL-St. Paul, is holding special hearings of the Jobs, Energy & Community Development Committee to gather information about this impending crisis.

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Advisory council opposes change in apprentice wage scales

By tsuperadmin | November 10, 2005

The state’s Apprenticeship Advisory Council opposes a proposed rule change that construction unions say would enrich contractors but reduce wages for apprentices.

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Survey: One-third of families fear becoming poor

By tsuperadmin | November 7, 2005

More than one-third of U.S. families, who now list themselves among the nation’s “haves,” fear becoming poor, a new survey shows. And that fear, along with virtual unanimity that poverty is a problem, should spur wide dialogue on what to do about it, survey sponsors contend.

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Diamond Products shutdown adds insult to injury

By tsuperadmin | October 27, 2005

It’s bad enough that 180 people will be out of a job when Diamond Products shuts its manufacturing plant in downtown St. Paul.
What makes it worse, some workers say, is that Mayor Randy Kelly seems more interested in the redevelopment potential of the site than he does in keeping good manufacturing jobs in the city.

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Social Security provides primary life insurance protection for many children

By tsuperadmin | October 11, 2005

Social Security is the only form of life insurance covering most American children, an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute has found.

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Bush order undercuts wages of Gulf Coast workers

By tsuperadmin | September 13, 2005

Apparently nothing, not even the greatest natural disaster in the history of the United States, is allowed to get in the way of President George W. Bush’s anti-worker and anti-union crusade. His latest move: To cut construction workers’ wages for reconstruction projects in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.