http://workersinterfaith.org Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:03:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ask Hennepin County Commissioners To Protect Crucial Community Services! The Hennepin County Medical Center was named one of America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report and plays an invaluable role in public health. The termination of the Government Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) program will result in the…

]]> http://workersinterfaith.org/archives/134 Victory for Temporary Workers at Hot Stuff Foods!!!

Temporary workers from two temporary agencies working at Lettieri’s, a Shakopee factory owned by Hot Stuff Foods Inc., organized and won an important victory on Wednesday April 8th.

Workers at Hot Stuff Foods approached Workers Interfaith Network (WIN) in early March…

]]> http://workersinterfaith.org/archives/130 Join Us For WIN’s First Annual May Day Picnic! This May 1, WIN invites you to join us as we make May Day our Labor Day!

First Annual May Day Picnic

Friday May 1

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Christ Lutheran Church on Capitol Hill

105 University Ave. W. Saint Paul, MN

Eat! Celebrate! Act! Join us…

]]> http://workersinterfaith.org/archives/112 WIN House Parties Bring Over 150 People Together to Act for Worker Justice! Over two weekends in March, WIN congregational leaders brought 162 people together to learn about the organization’s work and to take action on two critical campaigns: a campaign in solidarity with public employees and a campaign in solidarity with Twin…

]]> http://workersinterfaith.org/archives/110 WIN Leaders Organize to Pass Employee Free Choice Act WIN leaders have been organizing since last November to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation at the federal level that would make it easier for workers to form unions and harder for employers to interfere with and punish union…

]]> http://workersinterfaith.org/archives/108 Fast, Pray, and Act With Workers Fighting Human Trafficking Today, December 18, 23 Indian workers who are fighting to enforce human trafficking laws in this country will begin a fast in the Cass County jail, where they are being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. They will be…

]]> http://workersinterfaith.org/archives/98 Red Cross Workers Standing Up For Health Care This Christmas! Join Them! This Saturday, AFSCME lab workers at the Red Cross will march to protect our own health care. These workers do good works in our community, processing all the blood donated to the red cross. They deserve good health care. Workers…

]]> http://workersinterfaith.org/archives/103 Kim Bobo Will Speak in Twin Cities January 21 at 7 p.m.! Kim Bobo, the founder and Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, the national organization with which WIN is affiliated, will be in the Twin Cities on January 21!

At 7 p.m. on the 21st, Kim will read from her new book, Wage…

]]> http://workersinterfaith.org/archives/101 Tell Wayzata Investment Partners that Workers Still Matter! Join Workers Interfaith Network and the United Steelworkers on Friday, September 5 at noon to send a message to Wayzata Investment Partners. The action will take place at 701 Lake Street East in Wayzata.

This local private equity group recently purchased…

]]> http://workersinterfaith.org/archives/97 Work with WIN to Pass The Employee Free Choice Act! Workers Interfaith Network is gearing up to work with others in the community to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, or EFCA. EFCA would make it easier for workers who want to work collectively to improve their workplaces to form…

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