Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/69/)
Working families now have a first-of-its-kind tool to determine which companies in their communities are exporting jobs. WORKING AMERICA, a community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, Thursday launched ?Job Tracker,? an online, interactive database with information on more than 200,000 U.S. corporations and their subsidiaries that are reported to have moved jobs overseas, including jobs lost due to flawed U.S. trade policies.
Much like the railroads expanded economic growth in the 1800s and the Internet transformed the business world in the 1990s, renewable energy can fuel good jobs in Minnesota and across the United States in this century, two national experts said Monday in St. Paul.
The Union Label has gone digital with a new web site, www.shopunionmade.org, offering shoppers an array of union-made gifts, from clothing and chocolates to computers, games and greeting cards.
The export of U.S. factory jobs overseas will hit home in Galesburg, Ill., on Sept. 16, when its long-established Maytag plant — the town’s main employer –closes and throws 1,600 workers onto the jobless rolls.
More than 10,000 people packed Harriet Island Monday to hear Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards and others issue the call for a U.S. economy that protects workers and creates more jobs that pay well and provide decent benefits.
The economic recovery has yet to arrive for many Minnesotans and many Americans, according to two new reports issued on Labor Day.
The potential for creating high-quality jobs by increasing energy efficiency and the availability of clean, renewable energy sources will be the focus of a ?Blue Green Forum? Sept. 13, at the Minnesota AFL-CIO.
New Census Department figures find, over the past year, more Americans living in poverty and fewer with health insurance.
On the 40th anniversary of the “War on Poverty,” Minnesotans say that while not all the goals have been met, the legacy made life better for millions of Americans.
Some 5.3 million long-term workers were “displaced” from their jobs from January 2001 through December 2003, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.