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Saturday 28th January 2012 02:40 AM
Unions mobilize to stop amendment banning same-sex marriage
By Paul Warren
(01-28-2012)
Minneapolis - Labor unions across Minnesota are forging new and dynamic alliances in their communities to fight a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would ban same-sex marriage.
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(01-28-2012)
MAPE, the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, has three job openings.

'The 99%' calls on Wells Fargo to pay its fair share of taxes
By Michael Moore, Union Advocate editor
(01-25-2012)
ST. PAUL - Workers briefly occupied the Wells Fargo tower downtown St. Paul Tuesday, shaming the giant bank for using loopholes in the corporate tax code to avoid paying its fair share.

Unions' message to business leaders: Create jobs or face possible 'social collapse'
By Mark Gruenberg
(01-23-2012)
GENEVA, Switzerland - The world’s unions are delivering a strong message to international political and business leaders: Create jobs – millions of jobs –- or face the consequences.

Unions educate members, lawmakers to stop ‘right to work’
By Steve Share
(01-28-2012)
CHAMPLIN - January 19 was the coldest night of the winter — so far — but that didn’t deter a roomful of union members from turning out to Champlin City Hall to learn more about a coming threat: a proposed “Right to Work” amendment to the Minnesota constitution.

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   28 January 2012

On this day in 1917, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn gave a fiery speech in Seattle, noting, "The peaceful and indifferent are forgotten; they never know the fighting joy of living."

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