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Workers look to legislative session for action to spur job growth

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

When lawmakers convene the 2012 session of the Minnesota Legislature Tuesday, working people hope they will focus on job growth – and not divisive social issues, unions say. Organized labor is geared up to support legislation that will put more Minnesotans back to work, in particular Governor Mark Dayton’s $775 million bonding proposal.MORE »

State's most profitable nursing home seeks givebacks from workers

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

The most profitable nursing home in Minnesota is seeking wage freezes and givebacks from workers, jeopardizing the quality of care, workers said. Golden Living Center – Lake Ridge in Roseville, owned by one of the largest private equity firms in the nursing home industry, made $2.4 million in profits in 2010, according to Medicaid cost reports.MORE »

Toy drive provides holiday cheer to locked-out families

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

Families of the 1,300 workers locked out of their jobs by American Crystal Sugar are having a happier holiday thanks to the generosity expressed through “Operating Christmas Solidarity.” A volunteer truck driver from Teamsters Local 120 arrived in the Red River Valley this week with a full semi-load of toys, bicycles, sporting goods and other items.MORE »

End of an era: Local 879 was a leader for labor

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

Local 879, which has represented workers at the Twin Cities Assembly Plant since Ford Motor Company was organized in 1941, leaves a legacy of accomplishments for the United Auto Workers and Minnesota’s labor movement.MORE »

End of an era: Generosity of Ford workers will be missed

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

When counting what will be missed when the Twin Cities Assembly Plant closes its doors, high on the list is the generosity of its workers – and the millions of dollars and countless volunteer hours they contributed to various causes over the decades the plant was in operation.MORE »

End of an era: A culture of camaraderie will be lost with Ford Plant closing

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By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

Like members of a family, employees of the Twin Cities Assembly Plant played jokes on each other and called each other by nicknames. The workers created a culture that many said will never be duplicated. In the video below, current and retired employees describe what will be lost with the closing of the Twin Cities Assembly Plant Dec. 16.MORE »

Talks to resume in weeklong Machinists' strike

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

Talks will resume Friday in an attempt to end a weeklong strike by more than 350 members of the Machinists’ union at Polar Tank Trailer in Holdingford, just north of St. Cloud. Representatives of the International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers, District Lodge 165, Local 623, and the company will meet at 9 a.m. Friday, union representative Colleen Murphy-Cooney said. MORE »

Americans, South Africans face similar challenges, SEIU leader says

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

As people mobilized in the streets of Minneapolis to demand that Wall Street be accountable for creating the economic crisis, SEIU Local 26 President Javier Morillo-Alicea was thousands of miles away – hearing a similar message in Sun City, South Africa.MORE »

Building Trades protest non-union construction associated with HCMC

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

Minneapolis Building Trades members are questioning how a facility associated with Hennepin County Medical Center – one of Minnesota’s leading publicly operated health institutions – can be built by a California company using non-union, out-of-state workers.
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Movement to demand Wall Street accountability spreads to Minnesota

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

Hundreds gathered on the plaza of the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis Friday, joining the nationwide movement to hold Corporate America accountable for an economy that has left the majority of Americans struggling to just get by.MORE »

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