Government
How Minnesota’s New Paid Family and Medical Leave Protects LGBTQ+ Working Families
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On Wednesday, as Gov. Tim Walz signed a $72 billion “One Minnesota” budget into law, he also passed paid family and medical leave.
Book Review
Telling a Complete Story of the Pandemic Must Start with Workers
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What a new book can teach us about listening.
Minnesota
What Nurses and Teachers Won By Withholding Their “Feminized Labor”
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It is no surprise that out of the hundreds of strikes that began last year, two historic ones occurred in Minnesota, where feminized workers withheld their labor to demand better working conditions, hold their employers accountable, and stand up against greed for collective good and care.
Organizing
Why Hundreds of Planned Parenthood Workers in the Midwest Unionized
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Recently unionized healthcare and nonprofit workers in the Midwest are weathering the changes to reproductive rights and access.
Art
The Art of Forced Sacrifice
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Essential workers are expected to risk their lives when they go to work every day. I talked with artist Carolyn Olson about her portrait series documenting this perilous labor.
Commentary
Blood, “Sweat” and tears: The Guthrie Theater’s take on the human cost of the economy
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The Twin Cities’ Guthrie Theater is producing a run of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the lost dreams of workers in one of the poorest towns in the US.
Community
Transition and transformation at the Labor Education Service
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The last two years have been some of the most difficult and transformative in the Labor Education Service’s 71-year existence.
News
New program seeks to end wage theft and abuse in the local construction industry
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People hear of good wages in the construction industry, but the reality can be different for those who have nonunion jobs or work for corrupt contractors.
News
Blaze Pizza workers win back stolen wages
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Workers at Blaze Pizza celebrate their wage theft settlement and worker power after learning their rights and activating a system to enforce those rights.
Community
Why are Starbucks baristas unionizing?
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Workers at three local Starbucks stores have announced efforts to organize unions and file for elections.