Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/uncategorized/page/14/)
This is the first article in a multi-part series on the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). We will be exploring the history of the league and sports unionism; the gender wage gap in professional basketball; and how the players and their union, the WNBPA, are approaching collective bargaining negotiations.
‘Prevailing wage laws ensure that every County and region can protect its good jobs and local standards. Support prevailing wages!’
Nearly two years after Lakeville Motor Express abruptly closed shop, 90 members of Teamsters Local 120 are still fighting for the wages, vacation pay and other benefits the Roseville-based trucking company owes them.
Over ninety campaign workers at the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party announced Thursday the approval of a collective bargaining agreement.
With the finish line in sight, national union leaders and labor-endorsed candidates fired up union volunteers Saturday in South St. Paul, urging them to keep working to turn out labor voters for the midterm election Nov. 6.
Now, it’s time to harness that energy for one of the most important marches since election night 2016: the march to the polls November 6. And we need everyone, and I mean everyone, to enthusiastically join us in that march.
Voting advocates, including Brad Lehto, secretary-treasurer of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, have launched canvassing efforts as a friendly reminder to encourage Minnesotans to perform their civic duty.
With the Trump administration’s trade war with China showing no signs of letting up, new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute(link is external) says Minnesota workers have lost 88,000 jobs since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001.
The levy campaign has broad support from the community. The St. Paul Regional Labor Federation has endorsed it, and so has St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, who called SPPS the “lifeblood” of his community.
The global #MeToo movement has put a spotlight on sexual harassment and assault, and a new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research calculates the economic impacts in the workplace.