Duluth’s Labor Day picnic, an essential stop for stumping candidates and a staple for anyone who likes free beer and corn-on-the-cob on a late-summer afternoon, will not be held this year. Pandemic restrictions and economic uncertainty make for difficult planning,…

The Central Labor Body is expected to meet in person in the back lot of the Labor Temple on Thursday, July 9, at 7 p.m. Please bring your own chair. Masks are required at sign-in and strongly recommended throughout the…

A longtime Ironworker got a special honor at the ongoing Essentia project site recently. Gene “Smitty” Smith, who died at 82 last month, had been a member of Ironworkers 563 for 65 years. Ironworkers honored him by writing his name…

The ceremony was a familiar one — there was a tree and members of the Community Services Committee of the Duluth Central Labor Body gathered around. But the masked faces and careful distance among participants made this Workers Memorial Day…

AFSCME Local 3801 and Teamsters Local 320 were front and center as well as standing along the back in Kirby Ballroom during a meet-and-greet Tuesday with the new University of Minnesota President Joan T.A. Gabel. Both bargaining units are currently…