Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/uncategorized/page/475/)
It’s one 10-store chain in New York City, involving 95 workers, but the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union’s win at Footco is a glimpse into the future, where unions create new strategies to organize not just stores, but communities.
Party precinct caucuses will be held across Minnesota the evening of Tuesday, March 7, providing an opportunity for citizens to take part in the selection of candidates for local, state and federal offices.
The Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body has joined many other organizations in supporting the Duluth Entertainment & Convention Center expansion that will be on the ballot in a special election Tuesday, Feb. 28.
Unions and Northwest Airlines face a critical week, as the pilots and flight attendants face a Wednesday deadline to reach contract settlements and they — along with the Machinists union — conduct strike authorization votes.
Merideth Cleary, an associate member of the United Steelworkers Union, will report Monday, Feb. 27, on her experience as a delegate to the World Social Forum in Venezuela.
Minnesota legislators are drafting bills to make striking mechanics from Northwest Airlines eligible for state unemployment and job retraining benefits.
A bankruptcy judge has given Northwest Airlines and unions representing pilots and flight attendants more time to negotiate a settlement before deciding whether to dissolve the union contracts.
With contracts set to expire Feb. 28, the Service Employees International Union said talks with a multi-employer hospital association are “slow” and “difficult,” but expressed hope of reaching a settlement with the Allina system.
Building Trades unions will ask an administrative law judge on Feb. 27 to block a new rule proposed by the Department of Labor and Industry ? a rule unions say will reduce apprentice wages, weaken the apprenticeship system, and undermine construction wages statewide.
The Newspaper Guild is trying an unusual strategy to save jobs at the Pioneer Press and eight other Knight Ridder newspapers: It wants to help buy the newspapers, then set them up under employee ownership or as part of a new, “employee friendly” company.