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Nearly five years into their campaign for a new union contract, flight attendants at Minnesota-based Sun Country Airlines are still fighting for their fair share of the company’s growing profits. Members of Teamsters Local 120, which represents about 600 flight attendants at Sun Country, held informational picketing Jan. 10 outside Terminal 2 at Minneapolis-St. Paul […]
The benefit will be a top priority for SEIU members in talks with cleaning contractors this winter.
Health care workers don’t want to see pandemic-level staffing become the new normal.
The Sept. 30 rally is sponsored by the SAG-AFTRA Twin Cities Local, which is keeping a close eye on contract negotiations in anticipation of Minnesota luring more film production work with a newly expanded tax credit.
A new, three-year contract approved last month ensures union members will continue making television for the station.
Autoworkers at General Motors’ parts-distribution facility in Hudson, Wis., are not on strike today, but union members say they are ready to walk if their international union directs them to the picket line. “We’re on standby right now, just waiting to get the call,” United Autoworkers (UAW) Local 722 President Steve Frisque said. “If we […]
“Our message to Metro Transit is let’s get back to the table and really start negotiating.”
“They’ve never seen an employer make a proposal to undo so many substantial pieces of progress already won through the bargaining process,” health educator Elizabeth Wolfe said.
They would be the nation’s largest private-sector union of clinicians.
Management canceled talks after more than 40 workers showed up to bargaining this morning.
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