A Workers Right To Organize-Two stories

If you want to do a compare and contrast about card check and the secret ballot method of organizing a union in the workplace, Workday Minnesota’s recent post, Videos about the Employee Free Choice Act, offers two informative videos produced by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service.   The first one shows a successful [...]

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A first aid kit and hand sanitizer. Doesn’t get any better than this.

  Sign the petition here   Peace & solidarity, CHC

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Trumka’s Impassioned Speech About Racism.

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka delivered this fiery speech at the United Steelworkers convention in July of this year. Take the time to watch it. It is worth it.     Peace & solidartiy, CHC

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Change is in the Air

At least at Corner House Comments. The next seven weeks will see me working full time on GOTV (get out the vote) efforts on behalf of Labor in Minnesota. In the interest of disclosure, this is a paid position. I have taken a leave of absence from my regular Union (UFCW)  job as a forklift [...]

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Takin’ It To The Streets

Election Day is bearing down on us quickly and many people and organizations are working hard to elect their candidates. One such group is the Minnesota AFL-CIO  which has gathered over 500 delegates in Duluth this week to listen to candidates, pass resolutions, and get fired up for the remainder of this election cycle. Monday, [...]

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Minnesota AFL-CIO Goes Green!

If you are going to attend the Minnesota State Fair be sure to check out the new Minnesota AFL-CIO Labor Pavilion. It is the first State Fair Building designed to meet ‘Green’ Building Standards and was built with union labor. Fox 9 News has video here. Check it out to see all the cool features. Senator [...]

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Minnesota Veterans Launch Union Veterans Council

The Minnesota AFL-CIO along with rank and file union members who are veterans gathered in St Paul at the capitol today, July 10, to launch the Union Veterans Council.  The AFL-CIO Union Veterans 2008 website states: Some 2.1 million union members, or 14 percent of all union members, are veterans of military service. The AFL-CIO is bringing together [...]

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Minnesota’s Union Busting Attorney General

The effort to unionize the staff at the Minnesota AG’s office has been going on for some time now but this last week has seen a resurgence in news about the organizing drive and Attorney General Lori Swanson’s efforts to quash it. The office of Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is riven by fear, politicization, [...]

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McCain: A Clear and Present Danger

John McCain needs to just go through the motions before he is passed the Republican torch from G.W.  in Minneapolis this summer. Obama and Clinton will continue to slug it out and spend precious resources seeking the Democratic nomination.  I am not about to predict a winner on the Democratic side but can say this: McCain will be [...]

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H.R.676-the United States National Health Insurance Act

Health care has been one of the major issues of this current presidential campaign. Minnesota Central, a frequent visitor to Corner House comments, has left a comment about one of my previous posts which mentioned this issue and H. R. 676. Introduced by Representative John Conyers (D), of Michigan, HR 676 would institute a single payer health [...]

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