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Workday Minnesota is the latest development in a long-term communications partnership between the Labor Education Service, University of Minnesota, and the working people of the state and their labor organizations. Marked by innovation, this partnership began in the 1980s with Minnesota At Work, one of the first labor cable television series in the U.S., and continued through the present as computers and the Internet have changed the way we communicate.

Workday Minnesota does not reflect the views of any institution or organization but rather seeks to be a news and information source that combines journalistic ethics and practices with a focus on the lives and concerns of working people. Our admitted bias is that we present the world of events and issues through the prism of social and economic justice and the dignity of work. We offer Workday Minnesota as an alternative to the world of corporate-dominated media.

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Unless otherwise indicated, all material on Workday Minnesota may be downloaded and reprinted for any non-commercial purpose. Permission is granted for use by any individual, union, educational institution or other nonprofit organization on websites, in newsletters, on worksite bulletin boards, etc.

Articles that are not original to our site (for example, if we link to an article in the New York Times) require permission from the original source for use in newsletters and other media. Web editors may, however, provide links to the article.

If you use information from Workday Minnesota, we'd love to know so that we can assess our effectiveness. We would also appreciate a credit line on the material and a link to our site. We welcome ideas, criticisms and suggestions. Contact us at editor@workdayminnesota.org

Submit your news
Workday Minnesota welcomes submissions of news and photos on subjects of interest to working people. Please send them to editor@workdayminnesota.org and include your name, phone number and e-mail address. Articles may be submitted as Word or WordPerfect documents, or simply be pasted into your e-mail message. Photos of any format are acceptable, although if you are sending them as e-mail attachments, we strongly recommend that they be compressed as .gif, .jpg or .png images to save on the transfer time from your e-mail to ours.

We also are interested in audio and video material. Contact us for more information.

Hard copies of articles and photos to be scanned may be mailed to Barb Kucera, Labor Education Service, University of Minnesota, 321 19th Ave. S., Room 3-300, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Send faxes to 612-624-1585.

Staff Contact Information

Howard Kling, Project Director

Howard grew up in a working class home and is still trying to figure out how to be an activist, academic, videographer, playwright, labor educator and some sort of radical while being reasonable, keeping this cool job and getting anything done at all. He's confused a lot. He is the director of the Labor Education Service which has been serving working people in Minnesota for more than 50 years. Howard has been a film and video professional for more than 20 years. He earned an MA/ A.B.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a concentration in theater and American working class literature. Truth is, he didn't get that illustrious Ph.D. because he became too involved in organizing a teaching assistant's union and then became a labor/community organizer instead. Never mind how the film/video thing happened. He is a member of IATSE Local 219, playwright/director of Solidarity Kids Theater, and president of the Union Producers and Programmers Network. Email Howard Kling.

Barb Kucera, Editor

Got an idea for a story for Workday Minnesota? Spotted an error or a misplaced comma? Then you want to talk to Barb. She's been a writer and editor since grade school days, when she launched her own family newspaper that included, among other things, an analysis of the 1968 presidential election. Stints in the “mainstream” media and a 14-year tenure as editor of the Union Advocate, the AFL-CIO newspaper in St. Paul, followed. She's now pleased to be in cyberspace, although some would say she's been spacey for a long time. Email Barb Kucera.

John See, Webmaster/Instructor

Contact John if Workday is not loading properly in your browser, you have questions about the RSS, or need help with any technical issues related to the Workday site. John is a video producer turned webmaster and an advocate for open source programming and universal access. He is a member of IATSE Local 219, Teamsters Local 4-Techsters and an associate member of the Minnesota Newspaper Guild and Steelworkers. Email John See.

Randy Croce, Multimedia Coordinator

Randy Croce has been a professional still photographer since 1974, becoming a video producer in 1983. He created much of his work with American Indian communities, including a documentary, Clouded Land, which was shown nationally on the Learning Channel and PBS. He has specialized in labor media at Labor Education Service at the University of Minnesota since 1990. He holds a Masters degree in Journalism and Mass Communication and is a member of IATSE Local 219. Email Randy Croce.