• AFSCME Calling on the MnSCU Board to Stop Paying Big Bonuses
  • Working America Members Deliver Petitions Urging Rep. Eric Paulsen to Support Extending Unemployment Insurance
  • MN AFL-CIO President Shar Knutson talking with State Economist Tom Stinson after December 2009 Budget Forecast
  • SE Area Labor Council Make Wall Street Pay March and Rally, March 2010
  • Wall Street on Trial, Duluth, MN N E Area Labor Council March 2010
  • Working America Jobs Roundtable December 2009
  • Building Trades Rally March 11, 2010

Economy

Simply Cutting Taxes Won’t Create Jobs

Responding to Senate Republican Caucus’ press conference, Minnesota AFL-CIO President Shar Knutson issued the following statement:

“While we welcome the Senate GOP’s willingness to finally talk about putting Minnesotans back to work, their vague ideas were unfortunately more of the same.

Slashing regulations and cutting taxes won’t make a dime’s worth of difference if we continue to ignore critical investments in education and infrastructure.

We already know from experience that tax giveaways like JOBZ won’t create new jobs. read more »

Unemployed Workers Call on Big Minnesota Banks to Create Jobs

Standing in front of US Bancorp’s headquarters, labor leaders and unemployed workers called on Minnesota’s biggest banks to help rebuild Minnesota’s economy by investing in job creation.

“Big banks received a combined $14 trillion dollar taxpayer bailout from a global economic crisis they helped to create,” said Steve Hunter, Secretary-Treasurer of the Minnesota AFL-CIO. “The financial crisis turned into a jobs crisis that Minnesota’s big banks have shown no interest in addressing.” read more »

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Occupy Wall Street in Minnesota

By now, you’ve probably heard about the thousands of people demonstrating on Wall Street as part of a grassroots movement to hold those who caused our financial crisis accountable.

Yesterday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka officially endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement and urged union members to “open our union halls and community centers as well as our arms and our hearts to those with the courage to stand up and demand a better America.”

Tomorrow, we can join with those who feel the same way at the Occupy MN kickoff. read more »

Time for Congress to Follow President’s Lead, Create Jobs

Following President Obama’s address to the nation on job creation, Minnesota AFL-CIO President Shar Knutson issued the following statement:

"President Obama took a major step toward pushing Congress to finally address our nation’s jobs crisis in his speech this evening.

"Washington politicians have already wasted too much time being guided by a Tea Party Republican agenda of protecting the super-rich while millions of Americans want and need to work. read more »

America Wants to Work

Three decades of Wall Street and corporate-dominated economic policies drove our economy into the ground, and we are still paying a high price for these policy failures. read more »

Today at the MN AFL-CIO Labor Pavilion, Thursday, September 1

Host: Tammara Melloy, AFTRA, 10:00-2:00 PM

Music: Minnesota Twins Organist Sue Nelson, 1:00 & 3:00 PM

Demonstrations: Cement Masons Demo, 10:30 AM & 2:00 PM read more »

Show Your Support for Kowalski Workers

Help keep good jobs with benefits in our Community! Instead of sharing success with their employees, the Kowalski family is attempting to freeze employee wages and eliminate the hard earned benefit of a multiemployer retirement plan along with the introduction of minimum wage jobs.

Retail Workers deserve better and it is time for Kris Kowalski to negotiate, and not implement a substandard agreement which will harm workers and their families. read more »

As Minnesota Gets Back to Work, Long Term Budget Trouble Remains

Republicans Chose Millionaires Over Minnesota’s Future

As the special session ending Minnesota’s 19-day government shutdown came to a close, Minnesota AFL-CIO President Shar Knutson issued the following statement:

“While this 2-year budget avoids the GOP’s draconian cuts to education, health care, and jobs, it’s disappointing that Republican legislators would only agree to one-time revenue that borrows against our future and writes school children yet another IOU. read more »

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