WorkdayMinnesota.com: News http://www.workdayminnesota.org/ Welcome to Workday Minnesota, your leading source for labor news! en-us On May 10, be part of nation's largest one-day food drive http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3636 MINNEAPOLIS - Saturday, May 10, you can participate in the nation's largest one-day food drive by placing cans of food by your mailbox. Your Branch 9 letter carrier will pick up the food, which will be donated to local foodshelves. Like last year, Branch 9 has enlisted the help of Cub Foods. 05-06-2008 http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3636 Tax Day protest reveals consensus as to who won’t be labor’s candidate this fall http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3640 ST. PAUL - Labor activists in St. Paul rallied outside the downtown post office April 15, urging taxpayers to reject Republican presidential nominee John McCain and rsquo;s plan to fix the nation and rsquo;s health care crisis by giving billions of dollars in tax breaks to the nation and rsquo;s largest insurance companies and ndash; and by taxing working families and rsquo; health benefits. 05-08-2008 http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3640 Legislature snuffs Mounds View conflict-of-interest dispute http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3637 ST. PAUL - State lawmakers approved legislation last month that ensures Susan Murphy, the newly elected Mounds View School Board member who is married to a union janitor employed by the school district, will remain in office. 05-06-2008 http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3637 Unemployed construction workers say they’re running out of time http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3638 ST. PAUL - In talking to individual Carpenters at Tuesday and rsquo;s jobs rally, their personal circumstances may be different, but the basic story is the same.
05-06-2008 http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3638 To unemployed Building Trades members, Mall of America expansion mean jobs http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3635 ST. PAUL - For Carpenter Bruce Meyer, the proposed expansion of the Mall of America means one thing: a steady job. Meyer, age 56, of Cannon Falls, last worked 5 months ago. His unemployment benefits expire this month. His health insurance expired April 30. and ldquo;I and rsquo;ve never seen it this bad, and rdquo; said Meyer, a member of Local 87. 05-01-2008 http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3635