Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/72/)
They?re out of work. They know how they?re affected, how their families are affected, maybe how their own communities are affected by job loss.
But as they travel halfway across the country, participants in the “Show Us the Jobs” tour are learning that the nation?s job crisis is even worse than they?d imagined.
Realizing they would lose an up-or-down vote on preserving workers’ overtime pay, the Senate’s ruling Republicans used parliamentary maneuvers to block it. The move clears the way for new regulations to take effect this week that will deprive some 8 million Americans of overtime pay.
A Woodbury, Minn., food shelf will be one stop in an eight-state bus tour that the AFL-CIO is using to highlight the continuing effects of the nation’s job crisis.
A neighborhood group has invited both a representative of Wal-Mart and the United Food & Commercial Workers union to discuss community concerns regarding the new Wal-Mart store in St. Paul.
More than 800 AFSCME members from across the state converged on the Capitol Thursday to speak out for better public services.
In a bipartisan vote, a legislative committee has approved a bill that would limit the outsourcing of state services overseas. In the course of their debate, lawmakers decried the economy?s ?jobless recovery? and railed against trade policies that restrict their ability to govern.
The minimum wage would rise 30 percent under legislation approved by a state Senate committee. Advocates say it is long overdue.
Minnesota continues to cut spending, but its budget deficit continues to grow.
That?s one way of looking at the latest budget forecast from the state Finance Department, which says revenues will continue to fall short of expenses until at least 2007.
A state Senate committee will hear a bill Wednesday to increase the minimum wage to $6.65 an hour by Jan. 1, 2005.
A state bonding bill for millions of dollars in construction across Minnesota is a top priority for unions in the 2004 legislative session.