May 7, 2021
A free food distribution will be held in Minot Saturday, May 15, hosted by the Missouri Slope Labor Council, in partnership with the North Dakota AFL-CIO, North Dakota Building Trades Unions and the Saint Paul Regional Labor Federation.
The distribution will occur at the IBEW Local 714 Union Hall at 125 35th Ave. NE in Minot, beginning at 10 a.m. A semi-truck will be bringing 1,300 30-pound food boxes as well as milk. Union volunteers and local labor leaders will be handling distribution of the boxes, which will occur using contactless drive-through pickup as long as supplies last. For live updates on availability, follow facebook.com/NorthDakotaAFLCIO.
By Don Haney
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO News) – It’s been more than seven months since construction started on Amazon’s massive Fulfillment Center north of Hector International Airport in Fargo and a union leader says progress is moving ahead at a rapid pace.
The earliest completion date was set for August. Jason Ehlert, president of the North Dakota Building Trades Unions, says structural steel, pre-cast walls, and roofing are nearing completion and work is underway on pouring 1300 yards of concrete daily for the interior floor. Elhert says there are about 150 union construction workers on site now.
That does not include foremen and superintendents: