Northwest workers prepare pivotal contract vote
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Machinists’ members at Northwest Airlines begin voting next week on a contract proposal that eliminates about 18 percent of their jobs and cuts wages by 11.5 percent.
Organizing
Unions begin pursuing ‘solidarity charters’
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After nearly six months, the rift between AFL-CIO and Change to Win unions is beginning to mend in Minnesota.
Government
What’s wrong with this picture?
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State employees who were locked out during last year’s government shutdown recently learned they won’t be made whole for their lost wages. So they find it odd that Gov. Tim Pawlenty has declared this to be “State Employee Recognition Week.”
Metro Transit workers to vote on new proposal
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Members of Transit Workers Local 1005 will vote on a revised contract proposal from Metro Transit Sunday and Monday, after rejecting an earlier offer.
Policy
Ford plant workers seek ‘green’ future
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Having heard their jobs are not on the chopping block ? at least for now ? workers at the St. Paul Ford assembly plant hope they can convince the automaker to pursue a “green” future for the facility.
Organizing
Union membership grew in 2005, but down in Minnesota
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The number of American workers who belong to unions rose by 213,000 in 2005, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, halting at least temporarily an erosion that has been going on for decades. However, Minnesota bucked that trend, with a drop in the state’s union membership.
Community
Film: ‘Maid in America’ shows life of immigrants
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Maid in America is the next film in the Labor & Community Film Series sponsored by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service.
In English with Spanish subtitles, it will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, at the Resource Center of the Americas, 3019 Minnehaha Ave. S., Minneapolis.
Immigration
SEIU, Laborers push for fair immigration reform
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Two big unions, the Service Employees and the Laborers, are part of a coalition with the Catholic bishops and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to push for comprehensive and fair immigration reform ? and to stop a punitive enforcement-only immigration bill the GOP-run House passed in December.
Workplace injuries strike hospital workers twice as often
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Minnesota hospital workers suffered more than twice the rate of workplace injuries than other state industries in 2004, according to a report released Wednesday by Together for Quality Care, a campaign of SEIU Local 113.
Metro Transit workers reject contract proposal
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Members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 narrowly rejected a contract offer from Metro Transit in two days of voting Sunday and Monday. The vote was 53 percent to 47 percent to reject the three-year contract.