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Untold Stories, sponsored by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, is an annual series commemorating labor history. Here are the final sessions in this year's series:
Culture & Class in Post-War Milwaukee
Wednesday, May 16, 7 p.m.
St. Anthony Park Branch Library, 2245 Como Avenue, Saint Paul
Untold Stories crosses the state border with Professor Eric Fure-Slocum, author of the forthcoming project Postwar Democracy: How Growth and Working-Class Politics Reshaped a 1940s City, with an examination of post-war Wisconsin.
Counter Culture with Candacy Taylor
Monday, May 21, 7 p.m.
Metropolitan State University Library, Ecolab Room, 645 E. Seventh St., Saint Paul
Celebrate National Waitress Day with a special multi-media lecture by Candacy Taylor, author of Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress, which profiles waitresses aged 50 and older who have been working in neighborhood diners throughout the United States. Photographer, writer and former waitress, Taylor documents an overlooked group of working women who have brought meaning and culture to the American roadside dining experience.
View the entire Untold Stories schedule.
Follow the lockout of 1,300 workers at American Crystal Sugar in the Workday special section.
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Hospital strike averted with tentative contract agreement
(05-17-2012)
ST. PAUL - Service Employees International Union Healthcare Minnesota has reached a tentative contract agreement with eight metro-area hospitals thus averting a strike that was authorized by union members earlier this week.
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South Metro parents voice concerns about school funding
(05-15-2012)
BURNSVILLE - A room full of South Metro residents asked some important questions of their state legislators Saturday.
Demonstrators call on banks to support communities
By Michael Moore, Union Advocate editor
(05-15-2012)
MINNEAPOLIS - Hundreds marched through the streets of downtown Minneapolis on May 11, protesting the recklessness and hypocrisy of Wells Fargo’s dealings with Minnesota’s immigrant community.
Letter Carriers hold another successful national food drive
By Steve Share
(05-13-2012)
MINNEAPOLIS - Saturday was the 20th year for the "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive organized across the United States by the National Association of Letter Carriers.
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Judge halts new NLRB election rules
By Mark Gruenberg
(05-16-2012)
WASHINGTON - Union leaders are blasting Monday’s ruling by a federal judge throwing out the union election rules changes the National Labor Relations Board recently implemented.
Attacks on workers in 2012 legislative session were unprecedented
By Barb Kucera, Workday editor
(05-11-2012)
ST. PAUL - With Republicans in control of both houses of the Minnesota Legislature for the first time in 38 years, they unveiled an unprecedented attack on worker rights and protections, including the granddaddy of all anti-union legislation: “Right to work.”
Apply now for Union Leadership Program
(05-06-2012)
MINNEAPOLIS - The University of Minnesota Labor Education Service is accepting applications for the 2012-2013 Minnesota Union Leadership Program, which begins in September.
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