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• A tale of 2 employment surveys, at a glance
  The U.S. economy added 155,000 jobs in December, slightly lower than November's gain. At the same time, the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 7.8 percent.January 4, 2013
• What's the best new career for you?
  If you could try a new career - even for just a day - what would you want to be? Photographer? Carpenter? Teacher? One program seeks to make it easier to get a taste of your dream job.The Daily Circuit, January 3, 2013
• Efforts pay off to put Minnesota's military veterans in civilian jobs
  An intensive effort to help Minnesota's military veterans find civilian jobs is paying off.January 3, 2013
• Security officers, janitors back to bargaining table
  Twin Cities security officers and janitors are headed back to the bargaining table, after their contracts with maintenance and security companies expired.January 2, 2013
• Food, gifts delivered to sugar workers
  Twin Cities union members are delivering truckloads of food and gifts this week for the families of locked-out American Crystal Sugar workers.December 18, 2012
• MN home care workers to make pitch for union
  Some of Minnesota's home care attendants are eager to form a union.December 12, 2012
• Evidence elusive in Michigan right-to-work debate
  Gov. Rick Snyder says one reason he supports right-to-work legislation in Michigan is the economic boost a similar law has given Indiana, although officials have provided no conclusive evidence that the policy by itself has drawn new businesses to the state next door.December 10, 2012
• Twin Cities orchestras both declaring deficits
  With Minnesota Orchestra musicians locked out for two months and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra players locked out for six weeks, both organizations are announcing budget deficits at their annual meetings this week.December 5, 2012
• Sugar workers vote no for fourth time
  Locked-out union workers at American Crystal Sugar have again rejected the company's contract offer.December 2, 2012
• Unemployment rates fall in Midwest cities
  Unemployment rates declined last month in more than half of the 372 largest U.S. cities, further evidence of steady improvement in the job market.November 29, 2012
• Union members at paper mill authorize strike
  About 400 union members at a paper mill in Cloquet have voted to authorize a strike.November 28, 2012
• Teamsters report alleges corruption at Local 120
  Teamsters members in Minnesota are waiting for the next shoe to drop in a union scandal that has removed the top leadership from Blaine-based Teamsters Local 120.November 26, 2012
• Protests greet shoppers at Wal-Marts nationwide
  Wal-Mart workers and supporters marched in protest at a number of stores nationwide Thursday and Friday, blasting the wages, benefits and treatment of employees of the world's largest retailer.November 23, 2012
• Sugar workers to vote a 4th time on contract
  American Crystal Sugar Union workers will get another chance to vote on a labor contract in an effort to break a 16-month stalemate with the company.November 23, 2012
• Dayton on fence about child care union
  After being blocked in court, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton said Tuesday he hasn't decided whether to ask the reconfigured Legislature to permit a unionization drive by home-based child care providers.November 20, 2012

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