Labor

E-DEMOCRACY | The charterization and de-unionization of the Minneapolis Public Schools is picking up steam

By Multiple authors, E-Democracy issues forums

From: Dan McGuire Date: 5:26pm, May 18

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Minnesota loses jobs for second straight month

By Alex Christensen, Minnesota 2020

For the first time since Feburary 2010, Minnesota’s economy lost jobs two months in a row. The North Star State shed 11,400 jobs in April after dropping 3,300 in March.

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Minnesota 2020

Law allowing day care wokers to unionize passes narrowly after ugly debate

By Allison Herrera, The Uptake

On the final day of the 2013 Legislature — and by the narrowest of margins after hours of fierce debate — the DFL-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill allowing state-subsidized home child-care workers and personal care attendants the right to join a union.

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Getting to work: By car, foot, bike or the Internet

By Judy Woodward, Park Bugle

Like any seasoned computer professional, Sue Hakomaki, a senior business analyst at UnitedHealthcare, knows that the best time to start a large computer run is early in the morning when Internet traffic is at its lightest. But getting to the office early for Hakomaki can involve a grueling battle with morning traffic as she drives from her St. Anthony Park home to work in the distant western suburbs.

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Fontgate: Minnesota House Republicans launch late-session crusade for large print formatting

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

At two in the morning, the Minnesota House finally took up the bill to allow home-based childcare providers and personal care attendants to organize and vote on union representation.

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Bluestem Prairie

Legislators may no longer set their own salaries

By Mike Cook, Session Daily

Voters could elect to have a citizen-only board decide legislators’ salaries.

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Contributors asked to pay more into pension funds

By Liz Stoever, Session Daily

Funding deficiencies across several state public pension and retiree plans could mean a series of benefit reductions along with contribution increases.

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Minnesota legislature to trout and citizens: Drop dead; New report challenges WI happy mining job numbers

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

A frac sand industry-friendly compromise has been reached in the Minnesota legislature over mining near trout streams. Meanwhile, a new report commissioned and published by the Wisconsin Farmers Union, the Wisconsin Towns Association and the Minneapolis-based IATP suggests that industrial sand mining falls short as an engine of job creation.

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Bluestem Prairie

Post-traumatic stress disorder coverage could become new workers' compensation benefit

By Susan Hegarty, Session Daily

Employees who experience a tragic event at work that results in post-traumatic stress disorder would be able to apply for worker’s compensation under a bill on its way to the governor.

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