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Many people depend on care from home health care workers. President Biden’s infrastructure proposal includes a measure for investing in caregiving.
The Essential Workers Emergency Leave Act would allow essential workers to take paid leave to care for themselves and family members.
Some Teamsters picket at the refinery’s entrance, and some follow trucks to picket where they unload.
“I’m tired from working in this building behind me for over a year during the coronavirus pandemic and having to deal with all the stupid stuff Amazon does all the time – and they get away with.”
In a ceremony today on the State Capitol grounds, Gov. Tim Walz and Labor Commissioner Roslyn Robertson joined members of Twin Cities Building Trades unions in paying tribute to workers who died in the past two years due to work-related injuries or illnesses.
Organizing among Twin Cities nonprofit workers continues to bear fruit, as employees at two local organizations, Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative and Headway Emotional Health Services, have gone public with union campaigns this month.
After they discovered that 50 National Guardsmen was using the hall as a staging hall, many union members objected, noting that an executive board member of the Federation had decided to give the National Guard troops keys and access to the hall decision without a vote of the executive council of the St. Paul Regional Labor Federation.
If the bill is passed, it is poised to potentially bring millions yearly into the state’s economy from producers that would begin using the incentive to produce the backlog of on hold productions.
United Steelworkers members claim Allegheny Technologies Incorporated is refusing to provide essential bargaining information.
Women are less likely than men to go into the building and construction trades, but a few Minnesota programs are trying to change that.