Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/uncategorized/page/483/)
The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, especially on African-Americans in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, briefly opened the nation’s eyes to issues of race, class and poverty, a panel in Washington said.
Sue Eichstadt, the Windom Machinist who walked 154 miles to the state Capitol to call attention to the crisis in health care, is profiled in the latest issue of the Minnesota Women’s Press.
Significant improvements are on the way for home-based child care in St. Louis County as part of a ground-breaking partnership between a union and county government.
Eight months after their strike began, a committed group of Teamsters continues their walkout at Rum River Lumber.
More than half the workers at the Smurfit-Stone Container plant here will lose their jobs when the company eliminates its corrugated cardboard line later this month.
The American middle class is in jeopardy because the right of workers to join unions is routinely being violated. That was the message at a Rochester teach-in and a Minneapolis rally to commemorate Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day.
Leaders from the faith community led a candlelight vigil Sunday night to call on Wal-Mart to “change for the better” this holiday season.
To win electoral contests and issue campaigns, organized labor in Minnesota increasingly has worked in coalitions with community allies. Now two coalitions allied with labor plan to fold and create a new, broader coalition.
Local citizens, community activists, and faith-based leaders will hold a candlelight vigil at the Midway Wal-Mart Sunday Dec. 11, as part of the “Light A Candle for Change” campaign.
Across the country, International Human Rights Day will be commemorated with rallies and programs focusing on workplace rights. In the Twin Cities and Duluth, unions have organized rallies, while a teach-in is planned in Rochester.