Described in a City Pages article as the Donald Trump of St Paul development, Madison Equities owner Jim Crockarell is at the center of a labor dispute.
Writer, adventurer and activist John Reed was born in Portland, Oregon.
Today in History
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.
Elsewhere in the news
August 5, 2019
Texas AFL-CIO on El Paso Shootings, White Supremacy
AUSTIN
The labor movement in Texas has repeatedly spoken out about domestic terrorism, white supremacy and bigotry. We condemn hatred of any group with all the forces at our command. No more.
August 2, 2019
Airline Catering Workers Connect Poverty Wages to Corporate Greed
Thousands of the subcontracted workers who prepare and deliver in-flight meals are voting to go on strike, demanding better pay and healthcare from the multi-billion dollar airline industry.
July 31, 2019
Minneapolis wage theft ordinance advances for full city council vote August 8
MINNEAPOLIS
A proposed wage theft ordinance under consideration in Minneapolis passed unanimously through a city council committee July 29 and is headed for a vote by the full city council Thursday, August 8.
July 30, 2019
VIDEO: Wage Theft Rally
MINNEAPOLIS
The Minneapolis Building and Construction Trades Council held a rally and barbecue outside of city hall in support of the proposed Minneapolis wage theft ordinance,
July 26, 2019
Minnesota Building Trades Announce Plans to Fight Wage Theft, Exploitation, Labor Trafficking
BRAINERD
Unions promise to stand with immigrant workers, declare “Not On My Watch”
July 25, 2019
Hidden in Plain Sight
ATLANTA
How low wages, brutal working conditions, and laws hostile to organizing, make Atlanta and surrounding areas ripe for labor trafficking. Relative to Minneapolis, working conditions in Atlanta appear generally worse. Minnesota at least has state departments mandated with enforcing wage and workplace safety laws; Georgia does not.
Labor still lacks coordinated approach to organizing the South