Union agenda includes minimum-wage hike, privacy protections for Minnesota...
Meslissa Tesoro, a physical therapist and member of the AFL-CIO community affiliate Working America, supports raising the state minimum wage to $10.55. “People want to work, but the current minimum...
View ArticleAs lockout drags on, community group ponders forming new orchestra
Mariellen Jacobson, chair of Save Our SPCO, announces plans to explore forming a new chamber orchestra in St. Paul. A community group working to end the five-month lockout of St. Paul Chamber Orchestra...
View ArticleMusicians ratify contract, call for new SPCO leadership
Stressing that they “remain deeply concerned” about the ensemble’s future, musicians of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra today announced their vote to ratify a three-year agreement with the orchestra,...
View ArticleCigars, baseball, competitive cocktail mixing and more
Neighbors of the Lloyd C. Reppe, a polio victim, on St. Paul’s East Side saw “an exhibition of complete coordination, high skill and good fellowship” in May 1953, when 18 members of Painters,...
View ArticleUnions see plenty to like in results of 2013 legislative session
Service Employees International Union members and staff join a rally for marriage equality at the Capitol. Unions were a big part of the successful push to legalize same-sex marriage. Legislative...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor: Thanks from sugar workers
(This letter was received by Bobby Kasper, president of the St. Paul Regional Labor Federation. In addition to donating funds to the locked-out workers’ cause, the RLF organized two holiday drives,...
View ArticleCommunity group plans dialogue on Minnesota Orchestra’s future
Orchestrate Excellence, a grassroots group of audience members and business owners working to end the Minnesota Orchestra lockout, will host a community forum, “Our Community’s Commitment to the...
View ArticleUnion opposes U.S. Bank CEO’s campaign for Minneapolis Institute of Arts board
Local 26 of the Service Employees International Union announced today it will protest outside the Minneapolis Institute of Arts’ annual membership meeting tomorrow, urging members not to elect U.S....
View ArticleGloves come off as orchestra musicians mark one year locked out of their jobs
Since Day 1 the Minnesota Orchestra lockout has been taking a personal toll on musicians. Now, one year into the work stoppage, things are getting personal for the orchestra’s Board of Directors too....
View ArticleShutdown a ‘lose-lose scenario’ for veterans, furloughed workers
Stanley Walton, a locked-out member of AFGE Local 1969, joins a picket outside the Whipple Federal Building on Fort Snelling. Is Stanley Walton’s work essential? That depends on whom you ask. Walton...
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