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Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2024/06/)

Monthly Archives: June 2024

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Minnesota
Faith Ericson poses on the St. Cloud State University campus in front of the Mississippi River in St. Cloud, Minn.

How Academia’s Over Reliance on Contingent Faculty Hurts Workers and Students’ Quality of Education

By Isabela Escalona | June 27, 2024

Adjunct and contingent faculty make up the majority of instructional staff at colleges and universities today. Faith Ericson explains what that means for these highly qualified and underpaid workers and the role of liberal arts education outside of major city centers.

Minnesota
A crowd of people wearing coats and hats stand in front of a gas station holding yellow picket signs that read "Respect Us Protect Us Pay Us"

“Finally Somebody’s Fighting For Us”: Grocery Store Workers are Fed Up

By Amie Stager | June 24, 2024

How grocery store workers in Greater Minnesota fighting for better pay and working conditions are sticking together and transforming their union.

Minnesota
UMN workers and allies gather at the Minnesota State Legislator during their effort to reform PELRA.

“There Has Never Been a Better Time to Organize”: How PELRA Reform has Opened the Door to New Organizing for Over 23,000 Workers at UMN

By Isabela Escalona | June 17, 2024

A group of labor advocates, faculty, and other university staff organized to pass a reform to the 1971 law that predefined bargaining units for public employees.

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BeeBeeGunns, emcee and organizer with the Sex Workers Outreach Project, sings, leads chants, and hypes up the crowd through the streets of downtown Minneapolis.

The 4th Annual “Dancing in the Streets” with Minneapolis Sex Workers

By Isabela Escalona | June 6, 2024

Minneapolis sex workers and allies took to the streets in a joyful celebration to commemorate “International Whores Day” (June 2) in downtown Minneapolis, demanding decriminalization of sex work and increased workers protections.

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