Barb Kucera

Barb Kucera was editor of Workday Minnesota. She served for 6 years as director of the Labor Education Service, which publishes Workday. Kucera has degrees in journalism and industrial relations and a background in communications, including as editor of The Union Advocate. She is an associate member of the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild/CWA Local 37002.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Barb Kucera

Labor

AFL-CIO puts spotlight on wage efforts in Twin Cities
August 17, 2015 By Barb Kucera
Ongoing campaigns to raise wages and improve working conditions in the Twin Cities are drawing national attention.
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Labor

Minnesota, workers want AT&T to comply with state paid leave law
July 28, 2015 By Barb Kucera
Corporate defiance by AT&T led members of CWA and their families to rally outside the U.S. Courthouse in Minneapolis on July 17.
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Labor

Delta baggage handler files suit over retaliatory firing
June 12, 2015 By Barb Kucera
Hedges has been active in trying to organize a union among ground workers at Delta and in 15Now, a movement to raise wages among airport workers to $15 an hour.
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Labor

Study confirms what Minnesota low-wage workers know: life is tough
December 17, 2014 By Barb Kucera
The report was done by Minnesotans for a Fair Economy and announced by Working America, an organization of some 3 million workers, including 300,000 in Minnesota.
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Labor

Support builds for Delta baggage handler fired for speaking out
December 10, 2014 By Randy Croce And Barb Kucera
Delta Airlines' decision to fire a veteran baggage handler for speaking out in support of low-wage workers has elicited widespread criticism.
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Labor

At Minnesota AFL-CIO convention, organizing and elections high on agenda
September 25, 2014 By Barb Kucera
High turnout will be key to keeping a DFL majority in the House and moving forward a worker-friendly agenda.
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Labor

Minnesota health care workers beat down right wing court challenge
August 21, 2014 By Barb Kucera
If Service Employees win, it would be the largest union election and organizing victory in Minnesota history and one of the largest in the U.S. in the last several years.
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Labor

Are children working on Minnesota school construction sites?
July 24, 2014 By Barb Kucera
The Laborers International Union identified a second possible case of child labor on Minnesota construction sites and has alerted authorities at both the state and national level.
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