Erin Lynch, a server at a full-service restaurant in St. Paul, speaks at a press conference staged by supporters of a $15 minimum wage with no tip adjustment.
At the rally, they stood together in support of the proposed ordinance, unveiled a week earlier by Mayor Carter.
Machinists union leader and Socialist Thomas Van Lear, later to become mayor of Minneapolis, spoke at a meeting of the Beer Bottlers Union.
Workers are organizing through unions and other organizations to improve their lives. Union representation provides a voice on the job and the opportunity to improve wages, benefits and working conditions.
While the nation was focused on Brett Kavanaugh’s contentious confirmation process, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira, a major labor case that could impact thousands of workers throughout the country.
South Dakota teachers no longer earn the lowest salaries in the nation, but a new report(link is external) says that without vigilance, the progress could reverse itself and make it more difficult to retain good educators.
Internal documents reveal that Seward is struggling to meet its own sales projections while habitually understaffing.
AFSCME Council 65 has two open positions for dynamic organizers after a series of retirements.
A Twin Cities nonprofit that works to strengthen local families got a little help from the Machinists’ union family over the weekend.
A new report shines a light on the Durham and Atlanta healthcare workers raising the standards of care in America.
Labor still lacks coordinated approach to organizing the South