Minnesota labor media win national awards

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4679

4 November 2010

WASHINGTON - The Labor Education Service, which publishes Workday Minnesota, won three awards in this year’s competition sponsored by the International Labor Communications Association. In all, Minnesota’s labor media won eight awards.

Winners will be honored at a banquet Nov. 19 in Washington, D.C.

Writing for Workday Minnesota, Mary Bellman won first place for best editorial or column for “In health care debate, don’t fall prey to the politics of exclusion.”

The Labor Education Service won first place in the education and training video category for “Minneapolis truckers make history,” an updated documentary about the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster strikes. Deborah Rosenstein was the producer. Randy Croce was the editor and camera operator for new footage. Learn more about the documentary at www.minneapolis1934.org

Howard Kling of LES won second place for a long video, “U.S. labor education delegation to Vietnam” about a fact-finding trip by labor educators to that Asian nation.

FULL story at link.