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.
Amazon
High Injury Rates Push Minnesota’s Amazon Workers to Organize for Safety
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Workers are concerned about soaring rates of injury, high productivity quotas, incoherent policies, and a sudden warehouse closure.
Minnesota
Starbucks Is Trying to Wear Workers Down Through Its Relentless “Soft” Union Busting
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Amid a historic unionizing campaign across the country, workers are continuing to organize despite Starbucks ‘soft’ union-busting tactics.
Disabled Minnesotans Are Facing a Home Care Crisis. Workers Are Calling on Democrats to Change That.
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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.
Art
“Their Wealth, Your Misery”: Art and Propaganda in Pandemic Times
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Propaganda posters, pamphleteering, protest as performance, and more at the multidisciplinary artist’s first career spanning exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum