Workday Minnesota (https://www.workdayminnesota.org/category/government/page/2/)
Protest, Washington D.C. Vlad Tchompalov @tchompalov
Following two years of advocacy and organizing Minneapolis erotic dancers claimed a victory. Last Friday, the Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed an ordinance that will improve working conditions for adult entertainers.
Bernie Sanders released his Workplace Democracy Plan on Wednesday. His campaign’s labor platform makes the strongest case of any of the candidates so far that he would be unions’ best ally in the White House in generations.
North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) and other unions assert that union-funded Registered Apprenticeship Programs and the workers who benefit from them are directly in the crosshairs of the Trump administration.
A lawsuit filed in March 2019 by the Minnesota-North Dakota Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors (MN ABC) challenging Project Labor Agreements or PLAs was quietly and voluntarily dismissed.
About 25 workers and representatives from UNITE HERE Local 17 and SEIU Local 26 rallied and several gave testimony about how higher wages would benefit them personally.
“When erotic dance is treated as a public embarrassment, workers find very little help in their struggles with an exploitative pay structure, racist management or harassment” Swift said. “Standing with erotic dancers is a matter of gender, racial, and economic justice.”
When it comes to the issue of union fees and free riders heading towards the U.S. Supreme Court, it’s a case of “here we go again.” But with a difference.
After lobbying by the nation’s postal unions – and questions from non-partisan auditors about savings claims – a key GOP-run House committee reversed course and voted June 25 to uphold 6-day mail service, including Saturday service.
Bringing to an end a long and bitter controversy, the Senate on Tuesday filled all five National Labor Relations Board seats with permanent members, ensuring the board can go ahead and govern worker-management relations for 85 million U.S. workers, most of them in the private sector.
The Senate will vote this week on all five of President Obama’s nominees – three Democrats and two Republicans – for National Labor Relations Board seats, Senate Labor Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said.