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Isabela Escalona

Amazon
Khali Jame stands before the downtown Minneapolis skyline.

High Injury Rates Push Minnesota’s Amazon Workers to Organize for Safety

By Isabela Escalona | March 6, 2023

Workers are concerned about soaring rates of injury, high productivity quotas, incoherent policies, and a sudden warehouse closure.

Starbucks workers on strike on outside of a shop in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Organizing

Starbucks Is Trying to Wear Workers Down Through Its Relentless “Soft” Union Busting

By Isabela Escalona | January 24, 2023

Amid a historic unionizing campaign across the country, workers are continuing to organize despite Starbucks ‘soft’ union-busting tactics.

Bargaining
Gail Larson and her partner, Ronald, pose in front on their home.

Disabled Minnesotans Are Facing a Home Care Crisis. Workers Are Calling on Democrats to Change That.

By Isabela Escalona | December 20, 2022

Home care workers are negotiating their contract in hopes that the state will allocate some of the $17.6 billion surplus to improve pay and benefits—a test of the state’s Democratic trifecta’s political will to solve a worsening crisis for disabled people and their caregivers.

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Piotr Szyhalski standing in the exhibit "We Are Working All The Time" at the Weisman Art Museum.

“Their Wealth, Your Misery”: Art and Propaganda in Pandemic Times

By Isabela Escalona | November 23, 2022

Propaganda posters, pamphleteering, protest as performance, and more at the multidisciplinary artist’s first career spanning exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum

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