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A new president gaveled the 75th convention of the Minnesota State Building and Construction Trades Council to order at Madden’s on Gull Lake today, as delegates unanimously affirmed their Executive Board in electing Laborers Local 563 Business Manager Joe Fowler to lead the statewide organization. President Emeritus Harry Melander, who retired in June after […]
Minnesota unions are calling on state lawmakers to include crisis relief, paid leave and protections for working people in their final budget. “Working people need their lawmakers’ help,” they said in a letter to legislative leaders this week.
The result isn’t always ideal, but what has been in 2020?
The bill also provides a long-sought emergency rate increase for the state’s home care workers and keeps open two correctional facilities.
Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy called the party-line vote a “slap in the face to working Minnesotans.”
The standoff comes at a delicate time for both the construction industry and the state’s economy.
Labor groups are working on contingency plans as traditional election work, like door knocking, might not be feasible this year.
Union leaders are taking COVID-19 – and their members’ concerns about the pandemic – seriously.
Unions seek protective gear, emergency sick leave, bonding bill as part of pandemic response.
When a notorious wage broker pleaded guilty to two felony charges in Hennepin County this week, it was welcome news for unions and community groups working to rid Minnesota’s construction industry of labor abuses. “We are grateful that the legal system is holding those who commit wage theft and illegal trafficking of construction workers seriously,” […]
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