Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/author/filiberto/page/50/)
Thursday night the Cambridge-Isanti Independent School District (ISD) 911 School Board voted to eliminate over 230 staff hours, per day, for special education paraprofessionals at seven schools. The result would be the loss of 50-60 special education paraprofessionals–over 25% of the workforce.
Last Friday the campaign staff for Democratic-Farmer-Labor gubernatorial candidate Erin Murphy became the first Minnesota electoral campaign and the first gubernatorial race in the country to ratify a collective bargaining agreement.
Home care workers organized by SEIU Healthcare Minnesota like Cathy Gillman and Dawn Burnfin spent the day at the Capitol sharing their stories with legislators, as care workers, consumers and family members face what is being called a “care crisis.”
Over the weekend Delta launched a digital anti-union campaign targeting the organizing efforts of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
The potential deportation of Augsburg tenured professor Dr. Mzenga Wanyama was spared another month. However, the possibility of eventual deportation is already having a devastating and disproportionate impact on students of color.
An innovate program motivates cooperation between employers and organized labor to give workers the opportunity to expand their skills
Augsburg University Tenured Professor Dr. Mzenga Wanyama received a letter from ICE demanding his presence this Friday, March 9th to review his case and discuss “plans for removal.”
On Tuesday morning, March 6, educators gathered before the school day started and held a “walk-in” in a show of strength and solidarity as the Minneapolis Public School District and Minneapolis Federation of Teachers 59 enter their seventh month of negotiations for the 2017-19 Teacher/RSP contract.
Oklahoma Teachers are in the process of preparing for a statewide strike amid years of budget shortfalls that have cut into public education budgets.
Dr. Jimmy Patiño’s new book Raza Sí, Migra No challenges the nativist myth that “immigrants take jobs.” A portion of our extended conversation explores his groundbreaking work charting the history of the deportation regime. His work helps to clarify how the Supreme Court’s Tuesday ruling places more immigrant detainees into the exploitative labor schemes of for-profit detention centers.