October 17, 2003 - Tomorrow, October 18th marks the 115th Anniversary of the founding of the University of Minnesota Agriculture School, now known simply as the St. Paul Campus my home. Prior to this, the property was known as the university farm, but formal teaching of agriculture began on this date in 1888 with a class of 47 students. The campus is now home to the College of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences; College of Natural Resources, College of Human Ecology, College of Biological Sciences, and College of Veterinary Medicine.
October 21, 2003 - Nearly two-thousand University of Minnesota clerical workers are walking the picket lines at this hour. Marisa Helms reports.
October 21, 2003 - The University of Minnesota today is facing its first strike in nearly 60 years. More than 18-hundred clerical workers belonging to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees local 38-hundred went on strike this morning. The union rejected the university's final offer last night. It included a one-year wage freeze and a two-and-a-half percent pay increase in the second year. It would also increase employees' share of health-care premiums. University officials say that state budget cuts have limited their ability to offer more. Tom Juravich is director of the Labor Relations and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He says, in some cases, a strike can be an effective tool for workers.
October 21, 2003 - The University of Minnesota's clerical union is on strike today. Marisa Helms has followed the negotiations. She has spent much of the day at the Twin Cities campus of the U of M, where news conferences by the union and university administrators have just wrapped up. She joins us now.
October 21, 2003 - In the days after Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone's death in 2002’, politicians from across the political spectrum said they would help build a memorial to him at a St. Paul community center. Congress appropriated nearly nine-million dollars to build the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building on the site of Neighborhood House on St. Paul's West Side.
October 22, 2003 - The Minneapolis school board now plans to spend the next two months gathering public input before launching a search for a new superintendent. Board members outlined a strategy Tuesday that ensures district residents several opportunities to weigh in on the decision. The plan is in sharp contrast to the board's quick move last month to hire David Jennings, who later turned down the offer. Minnesota Public Radio's Tim Pugmire reports...
October 22, 2003 -
October 22, 2003 - University of Minnesota officials say they're surprised that the U's largest union has gone on strike. Clerical workers represented by the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Local 3800 today begin a second day of picketing (Weds). Labor relations experts say the strike reflects the financial squeeze that a tough economy and rising health costs are putting on workers and employers alike. Minnesota Public Radio's Bill Catlin reports.
October 22, 2003 - Members of the University of Minnesota's clerical union are off the job and on the picket lines again this morning. Marisa Helms reports.
October 23, 2003 -