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#NAW2016: State grant helps East Metro auto dealerships reinvigorate...
Car dealerships in the East Metro long have offered registered apprenticeship training opportunities to their mechanics, but the number of journey-level workers graduating from the program has declined...
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Lawmakers seek answers as Walmart strains local police time, municipal resources
Rep. John Lesch flips through a stack of incident reports he obtained from the City of St. Paul that stem from calls for police service made by the Midway Walmart over the course of one year. State...
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St. Paul teachers answer Trump’s divisive rhetoric with wall of support for...
Leah Adair (L), a teacher at Crossroads Montessori in St. Paul, holds a sign reading “You are welcome here and safe here” in Karen. Teachers, parents and community members lined the walkway outside...
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Minnesota union members marched against Trump in droves. Here’s why
D Rojas, a member of Carpenters Local 322, attended the Women’s March in Minnesota a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration with several other Minnesota union tradeswomen. Dressed in hard hats and...
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Labor community, TEAM help get IBEW apprentice’s family on track
The Hudak family (L to R): Dustin, Brady, Jocelynn and Heather. It seemed to Dustin Hudak that any time he made progress on his goals, disaster was bound to strike. One step forward, two steps back....
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Remembering David Roe, who expanded labor’s political clout in Minnesota
David Roe, whose 19-year tenure as president of the Minnesota AFL-CIO saw historic expansions of workers’ rights and protections in the state, died Feb. 13. He was 92. Labor leaders and lawmakers...
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Retiree council plans annual fundraising bash
Good times will roll at the Minnesota State Retiree Council’s fundraiser April 29, and people of any age are welcome to join in the fun. The 14th Annual State Retiree Council Fun(d)raiser will extend...
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Theater professor, students elevate RN voices with ‘Acute Care’
The wardrobe for “Acute Care,” which the Macalester College theater department will debut this week, is heavy on scrubs. (Macalester College photo) Twin Cities nurses provided the inspiration for a new...
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On annual service day, union plumbers provide $70,000 in service, repairs
Plumbers Local 34 members and apprentices provide repairs to an elderly Roseville homeowner during Water’s Off. From L to R: retiree Al Aschenbrener, apprentice Jason Chrysler and journeyman Jim...
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Friends’ labor history series looks back on ‘World in Turmoil’
May is labor history month, and for the last 18 years, the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library have marked the occasion with a series of labor-related programs in the city’s libraries and union...
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Sheet Metal Workers put new lid on St. Paul’s municipal booya shed
Installing the booya shed’s new roof are Local 10 members (L to R) Travis Rost, Scott Spears, Justin Rost and Scott Berube. St. Paul’s municipal booya kitchen has a new roof, thanks to members of Sheet...
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Pipe Trades apprentices test skills at regional competition in Twin Cities
It would be an understatement to say the competition among Pipe Trades apprentices – and apprenticeship programs – held in the Twin Cities June 7-8 was intense. How intense? After a labor reporter...
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Entertainment, giveaways, volunteer opportunities at State Fair’s Labor Pavilion
Volunteers participated in United Way Day at the Labor Pavilion in 2015. The Minnesota AFL-CIO Labor Pavilion will offer a daily lineup of family-friendly programming from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. all 12 days...
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Volunteer Pipefitters keep heat on for homeowners in need
Local 455’s Maria Pinzon and Christopher Kristenson repair a Frogtown homeowner’s furnace. Over 100 low-income, elderly and disabled homeowners in Minnesota received free furnace repairs and...
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Teachers look beyond ‘cookie-cutter’ signs and banners with community art build
A flier for the community art build shows some of the artist-submitted designs volunteers will screen print this weekend. Teachers in St. Paul are throwing out the playbook in contract negotiations...
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Learning Jet classroom gets lift from Trades apprentices, volunteers
Matthew Price (R), an apprenticeship instructor with the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters, led a crew of union apprentices in framing the interior of an airplane hangar at the St....
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Construction of St. Paul soccer stadium gets vertical
Construction workers and local officials joined in Minnesota United’s “beam signing” ceremony Nov. 21. Union tradespeople hoisted the first beam of St. Paul’s new professional soccer stadium Nov. 21,...
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Community Ed offers courses in labor history, construction careers
Want to learn more about local labor history? Looking to explore career opportunities in the construction trades? These two labor-related courses are among the St. Paul Public Schools’ lineup of...
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Union coat drive will help St. Paul’s homeless youth keep warm
St. Paul RLF President Bobby Kasper presents coats and hoodies to St. Paul Project REACH staff (L to R) Cindy McGowan, Tracey Jackson, Karla Stewart, Beth O’Keefe and Ka Zoua Kong. Union members in the...
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Union volunteers building Super-sized ice palace in St. Paul (photos)
Building Trades volunteers are building the city’s most ambitious ice palace in over a decade. Construction of the 4,000-block, 70-foot tall structure began last week, and it’s on track to wrap up...
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