(Video) Labor ad targets Cravaack on jobs bill
By Andy Birkey |
10.13.11 | 2:10 pm
Earlier this week, 8th Congressional District residents held a “jobs vigil” to pressure Cravaack to vote for the jobs bill.
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Dayton: GOP hearings on child-care unions are wasteful, ‘political ploy’
By Jon Collins |
09.21.11 | 8:50 am
State Rep. Mary Franson, R-Alexandria, said she’s worried the unionization of child-care workers would mean children would engage in craft projects using macaroni noodles to spell out “tax the rich.”
SEIU tears apart budget deal, calls compromise ‘irresponsible’
By Sam Lane |
07.15.11 | 1:33 pm
The Service Employees International Union’s Healthcare Minnesota and Minnesota State Council came out against the budget deal Gov. Mark Dayton and GOP legislative leaders reached Thursday.
Slideshow: Unions rally for tax on Minnesota’s wealthiest
By Jon Collins |
07.08.11 | 7:37 am
Supporters of 22,000 furloughed public employees rallied at the Minnesota State Capitol in support of a tax hike on the rich Wednesday evening. Their protest was nicknamed “Downeyville” for Edina Republican Rep. Keith Downey, who introduced legislation that unions said would eliminate 5,000 state jobs and threaten collective bargaining rights for public employees.
Laid-off union workers to rally at Capitol against all-cuts budget
By Jon Collins |
07.06.11 | 4:00 pm
Laid-off public employees plan to gather at the State Capitol Wednesday evening to put in some hard work building a town from the ground up. They’re naming the fantasy city Downeyville in honor of Edina Republican Rep. Keith Downey, who authored legislation that would eliminate the jobs of 5,000 state workers and threaten collective bargaining rights for public employees.
As workers protest, Minnesota government shuts down
By Sam Lane |
07.01.11 | 8:00 am
With Gov. Mark Dayton unable to come to terms with Republican legislative leaders on a budget deal late Thursday night, the state government shut down and the fate of up to 23,000 state employees who have received layoff notices is highly uncertain. A crowd of hundreds of state workers, including members of Minnesota’s two largest public employees’ unions — MAPE and AFSCME Council 5 — filled the steps of the Capitol Thursday night for a Shutdown Eve Vigil.
Shutdown Roundup: Core functions must stay open, judge rules
By Sam Lane |
06.30.11 | 7:30 am
In today’s roundup, a judge ruled that core services — including prisons, nursing homes and hospitals — must stay open should the government shut down. Bracing for such an event are immigration groups, unions and FEMA, which is concerned about the safety of nuclear plants.
‘Battle of the Ads’ bashes Dayton, government shutdown
By Sam Lane |
06.09.11 | 7:52 am
As Minnesota Majority turns Gov. Mark Dayton into a toy robot in one of its two new ads criticizing the governor’s budget plan and the possibility of a government shutdown, labor groups introduce an ad with a different message: state employees calling for a tax increase for Minnesota’s wealthiest.
Angry AFSCME call tied to firm with long-running state contract
By Andy Birkey |
04.15.10 | 10:57 am
“Hey you [expletive] piece of [expletive],” an angry caller said in a voicemail left with AFSCME Council 5. “Your days are [expletive] numbered sucking at the public tit.” But the phone number on the AFSCME voicemails points to someone who’s benefited from public dollars: Ed Motch, president of Minneapolis-based Bachman Printing Company, which has taken in as much as $42,000 in state funds.
Greater Minnesota AFSCME to back Kelliher for guv
By Chris Steller |
11.20.09 | 11:32 am
House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher is getting her second union endorsement for governor in as many days (and her third so far), this one from the 43,000-member Greater Minnesota American Federation of State, County and Municipal…
