Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/author/amie/)
Minneapolis residents who have been raising funds for neighbors who have been unable to work due to Operation Metro Surge are urging city leaders to take action to prevent an eviction crisis.
Federal workers who led the first-ever young workers march on Washington want to see young workers rise up across the U.S. and demand more from their employers and government.
Nurses say Alex Pretti was upholding his oath to advocate for and protect his patients and community, and they are demanding the abolition of ICE.
This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. Unions and community groups gathered in front of the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota this morning to announce a day of “no work, no school, no shopping” on January 23 to oppose the ferocious assault on the state by federal immigration authorities. “We are facing a tsunami of hate from our own federal government,” Abdikarim Khasim, a Minnesota rideshare driver, told the crowd. “We’re going to shut it down on the 23rd. We’re going to overcome this.”
JaNaé Bates Imari, representative of the church Camphor Memorial UMC., told the crowd that the joint action will be “a day when every single Minnesotan who loves this state—who loves the idea of truth and freedom—will refuse to work, shop and go to school.
Facing uncertainty, childcare workers and providers are calling for leaders to take action against a federal freeze in funding.
Workers are demanding facilities for rideshare drivers and an end to the airport’s operation of deportation flights.
Minnesota workers rally in support of striking baristas.
How a new generation of leaders is reviving the labor movement.
Workers who prepare leather and fat for footwear and collagen are on a historic strike for better wages.
Union and community members rallied in support of Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 before the union went into mediation with Minneapolis Public Schools.
