Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/uncategorized/page/484/)
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.
Eleven recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, and former Polish President Lech Walesa, are calling on the nations of the world to recognize and defend workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain collectively.
Three union organizing drives, three different outcomes. But these stories of Minnesota workers all have the same result and lead to the same conclusion: U.S. labor law no longer works for workers.
Every day in Twin Cities hospitals, members of Service Employees International Union Local 113 provide critical care to thousands of patients. With the launch of a new campaign Wednesday, they hope to become a force for change in the entire health care system.
Union leaders at Northwest Airlines pledged Wednesday to stick together as never before to save jobs and fight the airline’s strategy of using bankruptcy as an excuse to outsource thousands of workers.
Services will be held Friday for John Massetti, a leader of the Machinists union and activist in the labor movement, who died Sunday after a battle with cancer.
Take over a factory in Argentina. Walk with Bayard Rustin, the Rev. Martin Luther King’s advisor, as he organizes the march on Washington. Reflect on a century-old tragedy ? and one that is fresh off the front pages. Do that and more at the 2005-2006 Labor & Community Film Series, sponsored by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service. The next show, on Wednesday, Dec. 7, is “The Take,” about workers in Argentina who take over their shutdown factory ? and challenge traditional views of corporate ownership.
On Wednesday, hospital workers from across the Twin Cities and Minnesota will launch Together for Quality Care, a campaign to improve the quality and affordability of health care for their patients, families and communities.
Unions at Northwest Airlines will hold a “Rally to Protect Our Jobs” Wednesday, Dec. 7.
In one of the largest union organizing wins in recent years, 1,016 Registered Nurses employed at Hennepin County Medical Center have chosen to be represented by the Minnesota Nurses Association.