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Members of the Sex Worker Organizing Project (SWOP) Minneapolis and Feminist Strip Club (FSC) respond to a hearing of the Public Health, Environment, Civil Rights, and Engagement Committee of the Minneapolis City Council regarding changes to the Adult Entertainment ordinance.
Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) took to the streets in Duluth, Minnesota to, “show Essentia and St. Luke’s hospitals we are united in fighting for a fair contract.”
Friday, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders and sent 18 pies from a local Pizza hut for each day they’ve been blocking the Blackjewel train.
“Beaten Down, Worked Up” — longtime labor reporter Steven Greenhouse on the future of unions.
“Wells Fargo is failing to disclose its growing reliance on call center workers overseas in countries such as the Philippines and the likely role that offshoring plays in the new Minnesota layoffs.”
Thanks to a loophole in U.S. child labor laws, farmworker kids can pick crops as young as age 10. But education offers a path out of poverty, if the kids can stay in school.
Who exactly would benefit if we canceled all this debt?
“When erotic dance is treated as a public embarrassment, workers find very little help in their struggles with an exploitative pay structure, racist management or harassment” Swift said. “Standing with erotic dancers is a matter of gender, racial, and economic justice.”
Dancers are treated as independent contractors who are limited in their ability to protect their economic interests.
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