Baldemar Velasquez, president of the AFL-CIO's national Farm Labor Organizing Committee, will be the featured speaker April 8 at a labor solidarity event supporting Owatonna's Centro Campesino.
Centro Campesino has organized around wages, housing and workplace conditions for Latino workers in southern Minnesota. Last year, it formed Trabajadores Unidos del Norte ? or United Workers of the North ? the first union for seasonal workers in Minnesota. The event begins at 7 p.m. at the St. Paul Labor Centre, 411 Main St. For information, call 612-379-3918 or email april8event@uworkers.org
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Baldemar Velasquez, president of the AFL-CIO’s national Farm Labor Organizing Committee, will be the featured speaker April 8 at a labor solidarity event supporting Owatonna’s Centro Campesino.
Centro Campesino has organized around wages, housing and workplace conditions for Latino workers in southern Minnesota. Last year, it formed Trabajadores Unidos del Norte ? or United Workers of the North ? the first union for seasonal workers in Minnesota. The event begins at 7 p.m. at the St. Paul Labor Centre, 411 Main St. For information, call 612-379-3918 or email april8event@uworkers.org