As a driver backed a semi-trailer into the loading dock at the Finish Line Express freight terminal, a crowd of about 100 Teamsters Local 120 members and supporters had just wrapped up a protest rally outside the terminal on the other side of a chain-link fence.
Just before Thanksgiving 2016, Lakeville Motor Express abruptly shut down operations, immediately putting 95 people out of work and failing to pay their last two weeks of wages and benefits. The workers, who are represented by Teamsters Local 120, will rally Monday, Nov. 27, at the terminal of Finish Line Express in New Brighton.
Members of Teamsters Local 320 and supporters rallied Friday on the University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis campus for a fair contract for maintenance, food service and other workers.
Unions, women's groups and others are blasting the Republican tax bill. “This plan is a flashback to the 1980s, when trickle-down economics was all the rage,” said Teamsters President Jim Hoffa.
When Iowa’s ruling Republican legislators jammed through a law requiring most of the state’s public worker unions to stand for recertification, by absolute majority votes, before they could start bargaining new contracts, they expected state and local workers and teachers would defect in droves.
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Members of AFSCME Local 3800 and Teamsters Local 320 presented petitions to the office of University of Minnesota President Kaler on Tuesday, urging the administration to bargain fairly with the unions.
Nutrition services workers in the St. Paul public schools have ratified a new, two-year contract, their union announced.
St. Paul public schools nutrition services workers will vote Thursday on a new tentative contract that raises the wages of the lowest-paid employees, Teamsters Local 320 announced. The union, which had authorized a strike if needed, reached the deal after more than 16 hours of mediation.
U.S., Canadian and independent Mexican union leaders said they and their members will jointly fight for a strong, pro-worker, new NAFTA, North American Free Trade Agreement. But if they can’t achieve that, they’ll fight equally hard to beat it.
Nutrition Services workers in the St. Paul School District – the lowest paid employees in the district – have voted to authorize a strike if wages aren’t raised in contract negotiations. Their fight adds new urgency to the campaign for a $15 minimum wage in the City of St. Paul.
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.
Labor still lacks coordinated approach to organizing the South