Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/uncategorized/page/7/)
The scene in the Minnesota Capitol was jubilant as Aztec dancers, a variety of passionate speakers from the states various ethnic communities and a raucous crowd celebrated the passage of the “Freedom to Drive” Bill.
A new study shows dramatic regional differences in who gets audited. The hardest hit? Poor workers across the country.
Iris Altamirano will take over as president in June as Morillo joins the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization at Rutgers University
“President Dan Gustafson was a big supporter of worker education and a very good friend of the Labor Education Service,” said John See Co-Director of the Labor Education Service at the University of Minnesota. “He was one of the early believers in our efforts to use local cable TV to tell workers’ stories, to the extent that he occasionally hosted “Minnesota at Work” in its heyday, another venue where he displayed a brilliant mind for politics and finances and history- and how it all fits together. We will always be grateful for his support and friendship.”
Water’s Off provides no-cost plumbing repairs and inspections to homeowners in need
Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle and activist Eireann Dolan have been the most visible advocates of a push to keep the on field caps worn by MLB’s players, made in a union manufacturing facility.
Speakers at the news conference said Trump’s announcement was a welcome reprieve, but that a permanent solution was needed to put Liberian DED holders on a path to permanent residency and citizenship.
The labor union in the crosshairs of the right wing-led effort to gut public sector unions through a landmark Supreme Court case released new membership data Wednesday showing a decline that experts say could mark the beginning of larger losses, but is far shy of a fatal blow.
Wall Street pressure, particularly hedge funds and their managers, prompted the General Motors plant closures that will throw at least 14,000 United Auto Worker members – and countless other workers in GM’s supply chain – out of jobs, a new report(link is external) says.
Graduate employees at the University of Illinois at Chicago began an indefinite strike on March 19, demanding livable wages and better working conditions as part of a national wave of educator-lead organized labor efforts