Vincent Raymond Dunne, leader of the 1934 Teamsters strikes, is the subject of a one-person show coming to Minnesota.
Veteran solo performer, playwright and former Minneapolis resident Howard Petrick returns to the Twin Cities with his new show, “Fight for 52 Cents,” an engrossing and electrifying memoir of Minneapolis’ revolutionary labor leader, Vincent Raymond Dunne.
More than 400,000 union members marched in labor’s first Solidarity Day demonstration in Washington, D.C.
An investigation by Workday Minnesota found wage theft is larger and more widespread than most people realize. Minnesotans are losing millions of dollars every year.
The University of Minnesota Labor Education Service has begun work on a documentary to chronicle the groundbreaking organizing activities of CTUL, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha/Center for Workers United in Struggle, a Minneapolis-based worker center. Learn more about this project at a free, public discussion on Oct. 7.
The Minnesota Orchestra will perform a free, one-hour outdoor concert Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 6 p.m. at the Commons in Minneapolis.
Members of the American Federation of Government Employees, veterans and others will rally Wednesday in Minneapolis as part of a nationwide effort to beef up staffing at Veterans Affairs facilities.
While a recent Court of Appeals ruling served as a setback for the push for a faculty union at the University of Minnesota, unionized adjuncts at metro-area private colleges show a trend of significant progress in recent years.
The effort by University of Minnesota faculty to organize suffered a setback with a recent Court of Appeals ruling dividing the bargaining unit between contingent (non-tenure track) and tenure-line faculty. But the members of Minnesota Academics United will not be divided by the courts or the university administration.
The Minnesota Association of Professional Employees is seeking a union representative and Workday Minnesota is seeking a new editor.
