Fixing America’s health care system is going to take more than a band-aid. That’s the message more than 23,000 members of Working America, the community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, delivered to Sen. Norm Coleman on Tuesday. Dozens of Working America members, supporters and leaders marched down University Avenue to Coleman’s St. Paul office, carrying with them an enormous, bandage-shaped petition signed by more than 23,000 Minnesotans. The petition calls for high-quality health care accessible to everyone in the U.S.

Have you seen the TV ads about union organizing that star a character from "The Sopranos" series? The ads, sponsored by the anti-union Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, not only demean unions and their members, but they are misleading. That's according to WCCO-TV political reporter Pat Kessler. Watch his "Fact Check" for an honest take on the lies and distortions perpetuated in these ads. And for the real scoop on the Employee Free Choice Act and America's broken system of organizing unions, click here.

As the company, the City Council and community stakeholders try to reach agreement on a fuel source that will keep the state’s largest paper recycler open for years to come, the 500 men and women who work at the Rock-Tenn plant in St. Paul's Midway district can do little more than wait and wonder. Click on the link above to watch a YouTube video in which Rock-Tenn workers talk about their jobs, their concerns and their employer's search for a long-term fuel source.

Members of Twin Cities building trades unions will volunteer their labor to build a home specifically adapted for Sgt. Marcus Kuboy in Woodbury. Kuboy, who now lives in Fridley, was severely wounded by an improvised explosive device outside Fallujah, Iraq, about a year ago. Click here to view a photo album of volunteers working on Sgt. Kuboy's new house.