Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/uncategorized/page/478/)
Carrying signs proclaiming they were “just practicing,” several dozen workers picketed at Gerdau Ameristeel Wednesday to protest the company’s push for a concessionary contract despite making record profits.
President Bush’s State of the Union address drew a critical response from a group of five women who gathered at the offices of the Minnesota AFL-CIO to watch the speech on television.
United Auto Workers Local 879 awaits a response from Ford Motor Company to its proposal to make the St. Paul manufacturing plant a leader in producing more fuel-efficient, “green” vehicles. View the entire text of the proposal.
Members of the United Steelworkers (USW) union will put up a picket line Wednesday, Feb. 1, at the Gerdau Ameristeel plant to protest contract concessions demanded by the company after the plant produced record profits.
Members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, on a vote of 67 percent in favor, 33 percent opposed, have approved a new contract with Metro Transit, union officials announced.
Saying the nation can do better in handling mine safety, Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts told lawmakers the Sago, W. Va., mine tragedy exposes problems in saving miners’ lives.
Alan Greenspan, who leaves this week as chair of the Federal Reserve, instituted policies that have worsened the U.S. trade deficit — and encouraged the deindustrialization of the United States.
The Air Line Pilots Association’s Executive Council has granted
the Northwest pilot group up to $10 million from the union’s Major
Contingency Fund to prepare for a possible strike.
Education Minnesota has launched a seven-week campaign to get citizens to speak their minds about public education. The campaign includes 10- and 30-second television commercials and at least 15 “listening sessions” around the state through March 6.
UNITE HERE Local 17 says about 25 of 70 workers it represented at the Thunderbird Hotel and Convention Center — many of them longtime employees — have been terminated during a purported management and ownership change.