Ninety volunteers from church groups, labor unions, and the general community gave up their morning Saturday recently to go outside in the cold rainy weather and lend a hand to neighbors in need around the county.

The project, Neighbors Strengthening Wright Communities, included minor home maintenance for elderly and disabled Faith in Action care recipients at 18 homes around Wright County (including one in Rockford).
 

Wright County’s historic Kreidler Cemetery,  located just north of Montrose, hosts the gravesites of several generations of local residents, including veterans of the U.S. military going back to the Civil War. Over time, however, many of the older flat grave markers were sinking into the ground and becoming overgrown with grass. The voluntary association maintaining the cemetery needed help, the Wright County Labor Council learned.

Delegates to the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation voted June 10 to partner with the U.S. Census Bureau to help ensure a complete count of all Minnesotans during the coming 2010 U.S. Census.

"Everybody work as a team", advised Robert Kidd, Painters Local 386 member, as he directed high school volunteers brandishing paint rollers and paint brushes.

For the second year in a row, skilled union workers organized by the South Suburban Labor Council volunteered to assist Chaska's "Christmas in May" home fix-up event.

Seniors in Coon Rapids got help with spring yard work May 17 from labor volunteers organized by the North Suburban Labor Council.  The Council partnered with the Anoka County Community Action Program's Senior Chores Program to assist seven senior home owners.

Launched in 1994, the annual “Water’s Off” community service program always has seen union plumbers volunteering to repair plumbing for low-income, elderly, and disabled homeowners. This year was a surprise, a pleasant surprise.

Workers at Progress Casting in Plymouth, Minn., represented by the Glass Molders and Pottery International Union (GMP) Local 63B, have been locked out of their jobs since Oct. 27. 

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