Minnesota
“We Won’t Let Them Destroy Us”: Nurses at Illinois Hospital Strike Over Thanksgiving Week
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Nurses say unfair labor practices and denial of a staffing crisis are leaving workers with no choice but to strike during the holidays.
Minnesota
“What Could We Win Together?” Labor in Minnesota Gears up for a Major Escalation
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With a string of contracts expiring in the new year, Minnesota unions and community groups are gathering to unite around a strategy for a cleaner environment and better jobs, housing and schools.
They Sacrificed to Survive Bankruptcy. They Worked Through A Pandemic. Now, Autoworkers Have Had Enough.
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“I want to see them return what they promised to the workers that saved the company,” says a striking Stellantis worker in Minnesota.
“We Can’t Eat Prestige”: Inside the Unionization of the Science Museum of Minnesota
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The NLRB recently reinstated six workers at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Workers say the museum is still breaking labor law and failing to bargain in good faith.
Minnesota
Why Do We Let Our Bosses Control Our Health Care?
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A Q&A with Rose Roach, the new national coordinator for the Labor Campaign for Single Payer, which wants to take health care off the bargaining table by establishing a single-payer health care system in the U.S.
Midwest
“We Are Drowning”: Nurses Say Illinois Hospital Plagued With Unsafe Staffing
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Nurses warn Ascension St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet is failing to comply with a 2021 Illinois law to ensure safe staffing. Now, they’re fighting for improvements at the bargaining table.
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.