Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/uncategorized/page/481/)
Steelworkers at the former North Star Steel mill in St. Paul have been without a new contract since Aug. 1. So this week, they are enlisting the support of their counterparts in Brazil ? and the local community through a unique “blimp” campaign.
Members of Transit Workers Local 1005 will vote Jan. 15 and 16 on a new contract proposal from the Metropolitan Council.
Large companies no longer will be able to cheap out on health insurance for their workers under legislation that unions are pushing in Minnesota and 30 other states.
Corporate takeover artist Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., who owns the West Virginia mine where 12 workers were killed last week, specializes in buying up bankrupt firms in a variety of industries after they shed pension, health and/or other obligations to their workers.
China holds the dubious distinction of one of the worst safety records in coal mining, with nearly 6,000 miners killed on the job just last year.
The United Steelworkers Union, which represents the workers at the St. Paul Gerdau Ameristeel (formerly North Star Steel) mill, is convening a Unity Conference consisting of union leaders from all of Gerdau’s North American unionized facilities.
Sales at Wal-Mart were down during the holidays — evidence that publicity about the company’s record is having an effect, organizers said.
Could better breathing devices and another escape route have saved the lives of the 12 coal miners killed in Tallmansville, West Virginia? We’ll never know, because the Bush administration dumped both safety proposals shortly after taking office.
Workers at the non-union Sago mine knew the facility was unsafe, but were afraid to speak out, the son of one of those killed said Wednesday.
Wal-Mart has done it again. For the second year in a row, it won the annual “Grinch of the Year” award from Jobs With Justice.