Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/unions/page/25/)
After a decade in office, RLF President Bobby Kasper will retire at the end of December. Delegates unanimously elected RLF Political Director Kera Peterson to succeed Kasper as president.
Henrietta Ofori has been a long time nursing assistant at Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park. Her job is difficult, and she says that “We work so hard. When you go home, you’re so tired, you’re exhausted. You have to work overtime to make ends meet.”
“We just wanted to make our campus presence known to let them know that people are paying attention and care about what’s happening and are not satisfied with the explanations that we’ve received.”
“Heading into next year’s legislative session, lawmakers should be focused on investing in priorities that improve life for working Minnesotans and their families.”
Teachers and public workers in an Argentinian province have been striking, blockading roads, marching by the thousands, occupying buildings, and even attacking and burning the provincial parliament building, in a fight to defend their contracts and their bargained wage increase.
Last Friday, cleaners with SEIU Local 26 rallied in Minneapolis during one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
Workers called on Delta to take urgent and necessary steps to ensure that workers who cater its flights are able to escape poverty and access healthcare.
Gov. Tim Walz issued a proclamation last week declaring Wednesday, Nov. 27, Public Post Office Day in the state of Minnesota.
“As egregious and deeply saddening as it is to experience harassment from library patrons that I’m trying to assist, I’ve been more astounded time and again by Hennepin County’s lack of foresight in anticipating and responding to this harassment.”
The “walk-a-day” event offered Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who participated in a similar event in Minneapolis, a unique perspective on the state’s home health industry.