http://www.workdayminnesota.org/ Welcome to Workday Minnesota, your leading source for labor news! en-us http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3703 RICHFIELD - A bronze statue of the late Charles Lindberg, Iwo Jima flagraiser and longtime IBEW Local 292 member, will be unveiled July 4 at the Honoring All Veterans Memorial in Richfield. 07-03-2008 http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3703 http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3700 LAS VEGAS - The United Steelworkers, North America's largest private sector union, and Unite the Union, the largest labor organization in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Wednesday signed an agreement clearing the way for the creation of Workers Uniting, the world's first global union. 07-02-2008 http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3700 http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3701 MINNEAPOLIS - Progress on the new Interstate 35W bridge will reach a milestone this week, as union workers are expected to attach the last of 120 precast box girders. 07-02-2008 http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3701 http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3702 HASTINGS - Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, violated the law more than 2 million times over a six-year period by denying workers time for breaks and forcing them to work "off the clock" for no pay, a Minnesota judge has ruled. 07-02-2008 http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3702 http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3699 ST. PAUL - Political expectations have slipped in recent decades; people accept things that were once considered unacceptable. Even after last year's tragic bridge collapse in Minneapolis, there seemed to be only a temporary burst of public outrage over bridges that are so structurally deficient that they are too weak to repair and ndash; bridges that could not withstand the stress of bolting on reinforcement plates. 06-29-2008 http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3699