Farmers across the U.S. are prepping for planting season, amid concerns about how the Covid-19 pandemic could disrupt the supply chain, lead to labor shortages and influence price manipulation.
Environment
Airline Food Workers at MSP vote 99.7% to Strike
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The vote calls attention to growing crisis around catering workers’ wages, healthcare amid a booming airline industry
Environment
IBEW trains members to install electric vehicle charging stations
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Electrical Workers Local 1 and the St. Louis chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association have launched the first electrical car training program in Missouri and one of the few in America.
Community
LiUNA will rally to
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Laborers Union members and members of the community who support creating jobs by rebuilding Minnesota\’s crumbling infrastructure are gathering to "Build Minnesota So Minnesota Works!" The rally will take place on Friday, June 17, at 1:30PM on the Historic Stone Arch Bridge in Downtown Minneapolis.
Environment
Labor Secretary tours ‘green’ Minnesota company
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Viking Drill & Tool employee Doug Sachs says the transition to more environmentally friendly production at the St. Paul company has benefitted management, workers – and their wallets. “When you say green, people think cash,” he said.
Environment
Sheet Metal Workers benefit from LEED certification
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Justin Brandt was sailing through his apprenticeship with Sheet Metal Workers Local 10. Having completed the union’s introductory classes, he was well on his way to logging the 8,000 hours of on-the-job training needed to secure his journeyman’s card.
Environment
UAW joins Blue Green Alliance
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The United Auto Workers has joined the Blue Green Alliance, a collaboration between trade unions and environmental groups.
Environment
Louisiana labor leaders say oil spill ‘worse than Katrina’
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Labor leaders in New Orleans say the oil spill will be worse for workers in this region than Hurricane Katrina was almost five years ago and that the major media, both locally and nationally, are actually downplaying its significance.
Environment
Unions, allies continue ‘Good jobs, green jobs’ push
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Continuing their campaign theme of “Good jobs are green jobs,” some 3,000 unionists and environmentalists descended on Washington the first week of May to strategize about and lobby for massive climate control and environmental and energy development legislation.
Environment
Clean Energy Jobs Tour goes to Rochester, Austin
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The Sierra Club, Southeast Minnesota Area Labor Council and allied organizations are touring Southeast Minnesota highlighting the thousands of clean energy jobs in the state.
Environment
Green jobs on display Tuesday at the state Capitol
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Thousands of union members in Minnesota go to work every day in the clean energy economy, but their work is not always visible. The Blue Green Alliance puts a face on Minnesota’s green jobs through a photography exhibit Tuesday, April 20, at the State Capitol rotunda in St. Paul.