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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Organizing’ Category
A Workers Right To Organize-Two stories
Posted in AFL-CIO, EFCA, Labor, Minnesota, NLRB, Organizing, Politics, Unions, video, tagged AFL-CIO, EFCA, Employee Free Choice Act, Minnesota, new flyer bus company, turn around america fund, Unions, workers rights on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A first aid kit and hand sanitizer. Doesn’t get any better than this.
Posted in AFL-CIO, EFCA, Labor, Organizing, Politics, Unions, video, tagged AFL-CIO, EFCA, Labor, Unions on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sign the petition here Peace & solidarity, CHC
Planting The Seed-New Wellstone Action HQ
Posted in DFL, Elections, Minnesota, News, Organizing, Politics, video, Wellstone, tagged Add new tag, camp wellstone, democrats, Elections, Minnesota, Politics, Wellstone on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wellstone Action today announced a redesigned website. The new site incorporates a resource library for organizing tools, a blog, photo and video library, an alumni hub plus many of the old features including a training calendar for Camp Wellstone. Wellstone Action has been around since January of 2003 when it was founded to honor Paul and Sheila [...]
Minnesota’s Union Busting Attorney General
Posted in AFL-CIO, DFL, Labor, Minnesota, Minnesota AFL-CIO, News, Organizing, Politics, Unions, tagged attorney general lori swanson, Minnesota, Organizing, Unions on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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, [...]
What Have The Unions Ever Done For Us?
Posted in AFL-CIO, health insurance, Labor, Organizing, Unions, video, tagged australia, Labor, maternity leave, medicare, pay increases, retirement, video on January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to Eric Lee over at LabourStart for bringing to our attention this video from Australia: Manic Times asks ‘What Have The Unions Ever Done For Us?’ Peace and solidarity CHC
Senator Klobuchar visits SW Minnesota
Posted in AFL-CIO, Amy Klobuchar, Bush, DFL, immigration, Iraq, Labor, Local Media, Minnesota, News, NLRB, Organizing, Politics, tagged Employee Free Choice Act, Minnesota, NLRB, Politics, senator amy klobuchar on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar spent some time in southwest Minnesota the last two days as part of her Main Street tour. In 2007 she visited all of Minnesota’s 87 counties and is planning to do the same this year. Today her agenda included six of those counties and I was able to catch part of her [...]
Employee Free Choice Act
Posted in AFL-CIO, EFCA, Organizing, Politics, Unions on June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Lately you mave have seen or heard alot in the media about the upcoming vote on the Employee Free Choice Act. Unions and anti-union business groups have been doing intense lobbying on Capitol Hill and in the home states of the undecided or uncommitted. Democrats have an opportunity to show where they stand to the [...]







