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St. Paul Union Activists Expel National Guard from Labor Center

By Mike Elk (Payday Report)

Community

A Film Stimulus Bill for Minnesota

If the bill is passed, it is poised to potentially bring millions yearly into the state’s economy from producers that would begin using the incentive to produce the backlog of on hold productions.

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Organizing

Citing Unfair Labor Practices, 1,300 Steelworkers Strike in Five States

United Steelworkers members claim Allegheny Technologies Incorporated is refusing to provide essential bargaining information.
Workers

Celebrating Women in the Trades

Women are less likely than men to go into the building and construction trades, but a few Minnesota programs are trying to change that.
Unions

Metro Transit workers put a face on their fight for safety, respect

Transit workers staged a daylong demonstration outside the Bureau of Mediation Services in St. Paul, where their union resumed contract negotiations with Metro Transit this week, hoping to put a human face on their fight for hazard pay, safety protections and respect.
Community

Union family sticking together as Marathon lockout drags on

Outraged and unreserved, Christner, Marlatt and dozens of other family members and friends took over the Teamsters Local 120 picket line outside the refinery March 11, showing the depth of community support behind nearly 200 union members who have been locked out by Marathon since Jan. 22.
Community

St. Paul Park refinery picks fight with Building Trades unions, too

“Marathon has been going down this pathway for a long time,” Don Mullin, executive secretary of the St. Paul Building and Construction Trades Council, said. “They’ve been taking on efforts to be anti-organized labor because that’s the way they do it in other states.”
Government

After ‘six years of purgatory,’ retirees celebrate pension fix with Smith

The emergency funds will protect pension benefits earned by 1.5 million active and retired workers nationwide, including about 22,000 Minnesota retirees who paid into the Central States Pension Fund.