Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/uncategorized/page/476/)
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.
More jobs are being created in Minnesota, but wages remain stuck at levels that cannot support a family, according to an analysis of new statistics by the JOBS NOW Coalition.
Retired Teamster Al Erickson, perhaps the last surviving participant of the landmark 1934 strike that made Minneapolis a union town, has died at age 99.
A Capitol rally at noon Feb. 20 will push the case for the State of Minnesota to pay unemployment benefits to striking mechanics at Northwest Airlines. The rally also marks the six-month anniversary of their strike.
Members of International Association of Machinists Lodge 143 voted this week in northern Minnesota and the Twin Cities on a proposed contract with Northwest Airlines. They also voted whether to strike if the contract is rejected.
A new community coalition has launched the Healthcare Fairview Accountability Community Team, or Healthcare FACT, to persuade Fairview Health Services to abandon its new employee health plan because many workers can’t afford it.
Two major building trades unions ? the Laborers and Operating Engineers ? are quitting the national Building Trades and forming a new National Construction Alliance with the Bricklayers, Carpenters, Iron Workers and Teamsters, they announced Tuesday.
In honor of Valentine’s Day, representatives of the Change to Win (CtW) Federation in Minnesota demanded the owners of the Ramada Mall of America Hotel ? formerly known as the Thunderbird Hotel ? wake up and have a heart regarding their unfair labor practices.
The newly formed Alliance for a Better Minnesota is questioning Governor Tim Pawlenty’s record on education, health care and government spending ? and is asking Minnesotans to share their experiences at a special website.
Thousands of people marched through south Minneapolis Sunday afternoon in support of immigrants and immigrant rights.