Minnesota
UMN Grad Workers Express Hope and Urgency as They Gear Up for Union Election
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Over 65% of University of Minnesota Graduate Workers have signed their union cards, an optimistic start after many attempts over the past several decades.
Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/author/isabelaescalona/page/3/)
Over 65% of University of Minnesota Graduate Workers have signed their union cards, an optimistic start after many attempts over the past several decades.
Workers are concerned about soaring rates of injury, high productivity quotas, incoherent policies, and a sudden warehouse closure.
Amid a historic unionizing campaign across the country, workers are continuing to organize despite Starbucks ‘soft’ union-busting tactics.
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.
Propaganda posters, pamphleteering, protest as performance, and more at the multidisciplinary artist’s first career spanning exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum