MN AFL-CIO Videos

, National Nurses United. Their goal: Staffing ratios that protect nurses and patients; RNs' rights to organize and patients' rights to quality care. "When you take one of us on, you take all of us on," is the message as RNs from Maine, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Michigan, Hawaii, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas, and many other states realize a lifelong goal - the formation of the largest union of it's kind dedicated to full-time patient advocacy and real healthcare reforms. On the ...

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Minnesota AFL-CIO sponsors Health Care forum on International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2009. Health care is a human right and the time for quality, affordable health care is now.

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Members of Working America, the community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, from Minnesota discussed the jobs crisis Dec. 3, a day before President Obama convened a jobs forum at the White House. ... stpaulunions "Working America" AFL-CIO jobs labor unions economy

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Minnesota workers who lost their lives on the job site will be honored with a new memorial on the state Capitol grounds. Union leaders, elected officials and other supporters broke ground on the memorial in a ceremony Oct. 5 on the Capitol grounds, just off the intersection of Cedar Avenue and 12th Street. Dave Roe, former president of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, presided over the ceremony.

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Linda Hamilton, newly elected president of the Minnesota Nurses Association, recently spoke about health care reform at the AFL-CIO Convention in Pittsburgh, September 2009. ... nurses "health care" labor unions president AFL-CIO MNA

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. Meany was a great believer in the cooperation of labor and capital. Under his leadership, the AFL and then the AFL-CIO supported anticommunist policies. Unions deemed leftist, including the United Electrical Workers and the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Employees of America, were expelled from the CIO by the early 1950s. AFL-CIO unions then cooperated with employers to raid and decertify leftist unions. He was a steadfast supporter of the Vietnam War. Meany was close to Jay ...

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Eleven DFL candidates answered randomly selected questions at a Minnesota AFL-CIO gubernatorial forum on October 1, 2009 in Bloomington. Speakers in this segment are: Tom Bakk, Chris Coleman, Mark Dayton, Matt Entenza, Susan Gaertner and Steve Kelley.

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Eleven DFL candidates answered randomly selected questions at a Minnesota AFL-CIO gubernatorial forum on October 1, 2009 in Bloomington. Speaking in this segment are: Margaret Anderson Kelliher, John Marty, Tom Rukavina, RT Rybak and Paul Thissen.

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Minnesota State Representative Pual Thissen was one of eleven DFL candidates who answered randomly selected questions at the Minnesota AFL-CIO gubernatorial forum on October 1, 2009.

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Former US Senator Mark Dayton was one of eleven DFL candidates who answered randomly selected questions at the Minnesota AFL-CIO gubernatorial forum on October 1, 2009.

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