Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/74/)
Three events in Minnesota this week will highlight jobs lost through NAFTA and other bad trade deals. Soon-to-be-laidoff workers in Eagan will hold a “memorial to lost jobs,” Iron Rangers have scheduled a rally and several organizations are co-sponsoring a teach-in in St. Paul.
Unions will hold a protest Thursday, Oct. 9, at 5 p.m. to protest the decision by Marathon Oil to hire an out-of-state contractor, Starcon, Inc. Building Trades unions say the decision will cost about 100 Minnesota jobs.
The House of Representatives was scheduled to vote Wednesday on whether to adopt a Senate-passed ban on Bush?s plan. But Republican leaders postponed the vote for at least a day, if not longer, say Capitol Hill observers, to give the Bush administration additional time to twist more arms in an effort to defeat the measure.
The Metropolitan Airports Commission refused to protect the jobs, wages or benefits of more than 850 workers Monday as it adopted new policies for companies to run restaurants, stores and concessions at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport.
Well over 100 people from a broad cross section of unions and communities
throughout northern Minnesota attended a press conference at Duluth’s Port
Terminal Saturday that appealed to President Bush to continue his
tariff program on imported steel.
Unions play a key role in social and economic achievements for all workers by setting compensation standards and winning legislation in areas such as safety and health, overtime and family and medical leave, according to “How Unions Help All Workers,” a new report by the Economic Policy Institute.
Interviews with utility workers show mechanical failures aren’t the key reason for the largest blackout in U.S. history. Deregulation is.
Can a predominately middle-class theater audience understand not only the reality of low-wage work, but also their own complicity in the exploitation that takes place? That?s what the Guthrie Lab tries to find out in its production of ?Nickel and Dimed,? a stage adaptation of Barbara Ehrenreich?s best-selling book.
More than one-third of Minnesotans are not earning enough money to support a family. That?s the conclusion of the new report, Cost of Living in Minnesota, that will be issued later this month by the JOBS NOW Coalition.
Americans must get involved now to decide whether their country will provide opportunity for all, or will exist to help the rich get richer, U.S. Senator Mark Dayton told delegates to the Minnesota AFL-CIO convention.