Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/8/)
On a sunny Saturday morning Oct. 20, dozens of union volunteers trickled into a coffee shop downtown Burnsville. They paired up, gathered routes and handbills, and fanned out across the suburb, knocking on fellow union members’ doors and talking about their labor-endorsed candidate for Minnesota House, Will Morgan.
More job openings are available in the Twin Cities and across Minnesota, but the pace of employment growth still lags and the quality of many of the jobs is poor, according to an analysis by the JOBS NOW Coalition.
A total of 84,350 pension plans have vanished since 1985. This figure shocked Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Donald L. Barlett and James W. Steele, who just released their latest book, "The Betrayal of the American Dream."
More than 450,000 new voters from union households may be going to the polls Nov. 6 thanks to an ongoing voter registration drive by the union movement, the AFL-CIO announced.
Members of the Building Trades, along with investors and city officials, broke ground for a new rental housing development in the North Loop neighborhood of Minneapolis that is funded through union pensions.
No one would blame Nicholas Perez and Cheri Stewart if they decided the problems facing their generation are just too big to tackle.
Governor Mark Dayton is proud of his vetoes to stop anti-worker legislation, but he’d much rather be playing offense, he told Minnesota AFL-CIO convention delegates.
Union members affirmed their opposition to the two proposed constitutional amendments that will be on the ballot this fall, saying they are “wrong for Minnesota.”
Under the theme, “We Are Minnesota,” union members from across the state will participate in the three-day convention of the Minnesota AFL-CIO starting Sunday at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester.
Since the Minnesota legislature passed funding for a new Vikings football stadium in May, Governor Mark Dayton has promised the project will bring much-needed jobs to Minneapolis. To boot, a Project Labor Agreement is likely to be used so the region’s workers are feeling assured that the jobs will stay local.