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• CenturyLink, unions talk as contract expires
  CenturyLink Inc. and the unions for 700,000 workers in 13 states -- including Minnesota -- have extended talks after their labor contract expired Saturday night.October 7, 2012
• Working from home more popular in Minn.
  The number of people in the Twin Cities metro area who work primarily or exclusively at home is on the rise.October 5, 2012
• Union endorses boycott of American Crystal
  The AFL-CIO has endorsed a nationwide consumer boycott of American Crystal Sugar products to protest its 14-month lockout of union workers.October 2, 2012
• SPCO, Minn. Orchestra contracts expire this weekend
  After months of negotiation, and little progress, both the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra face contract deadlines with their musicians this weekend.September 28, 2012
• Lockouts becoming more common in labor disputes
  Lockouts used to be relatively rare in the United States, tut more than eleven percent of work stoppages last year were lockouts, which is a dramatic increase from two decades ago. Labor expert John Remington of the University of Minnesota spoke with Morning Edition host Cathy Wurzer about the trend.September 27, 2012
• Locked-out sugar workers enlist kids
  Locked-out American Crystal Sugar workers have called on their children in an effort to get the company to negotiate an end to the labor dispute.September 23, 2012
• Twin Cities orchestras make public appeal amid contract negotiations
  With time running out for contract negotiations at the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, all sides are trying to make their cases to the public.September 21, 2012
• The political power behind big trash
  Earth Island Journal examined the world of for-profit trash collection and its influence on state composting policies. What kind of power does big trash have in America?The Daily Circuit, September 19, 2012
• 'Framework' set to end Chicago teacher strike
  The city's nearly weeklong teachers strike appeared headed toward a resolution Friday after negotiators emerged from marathon talks to say they had achieved a "framework" that could end the walkout in time for students to return to class Monday.September 14, 2012
• Counselor's goal is to give job seekers more than hope
  The latest jobless numbers from the state found 170,000 Minnesotans were unemployed at the end of July. Every week, job counselor Nancy Cohen offers free help to many of those unemployed Minnesotans.September 12, 2012
• 'Perfect storm' led to Chicago strike
  It was a major accomplishment in Chicago that teachers who used to walk out frequently had, for the past 25 years, managed to avoid a strike. But it's not surprising, many experts say, that things would fall apart now.September 11, 2012
• American Crystal protests move to directors' homes
  American Crystal Sugar workers are demonstrating at the homes of the company's directors as a lockout drags on.September 6, 2012
• Fits and starts for Iron Range labor talks over holiday weekend
  Labor negotiations affect nearly 3,000 mine workers at five facilities on the Iron Range that mine low-grade iron ore and process it into taconite pellets used to make steel.September 2, 2012
• No Place for a Woman: The story of women working in Iron Range mines
  On Labor Day, an American RadioWorks documentary about women working in the northern Minnesota iron mines, titled "No Place for a Woman."Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, August 31, 2012
• Clock ticking on mining contract negotiations
  Time is running out on the United Steelworkers Union and five Iron Range taconite operations to hammer out a new contract.August 31, 2012

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