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Across Industries, Minnesota Workers Are Harnessing Their Collective Power

By Amie Stager | March 20, 2024

Minnesota workers and community groups have worked toward this moment for over a decade. It’s paying off.

Two lines of workers covered in white from head to toe stand at assembly lines slicing meat into red boxes with fluorescent lights overhead

This Union Wants Meatpacking Companies to Foot the Bill for Child Labor Prevention

Adam Burch, bus operator, stands in front of a bus after a shift.

Metro Transit Workers Say Improving Transit Starts with Better Working Conditions

A black woman wearing a blue long sleeve shirt stands at a podium raising her hand and pointing upwards, a brown woman holding a piece of paper and wearing a black scarf with rainbow details stands beside the podium in front of a background of multicolored banners

Minnesota Is Headed for a Workers vs. Bosses Showdown That’s 10 Years in the Making

A crowd looks on to a Black man wearing a camo jacket standing next to speaker with a microphone, one crowd member holds a picket sign reading "UAW ON STRIKE"

They Sacrificed to Survive Bankruptcy. They Worked Through A Pandemic. Now, Autoworkers Have Had Enough.

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“We Can’t Eat Prestige”: Inside the Unionization of the Science Museum of Minnesota

By Amie Stager | September 26, 2023

The NLRB recently reinstated six workers at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Workers say the museum is still breaking labor law and failing to bargain in good faith.

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Eric McAleavey, (sixth from right) and other workers at the General Motors’ Hudson Parts Distribution Center in Wisconsin picket outside the facility on Sept, 22, 2023. They were among 38 parts distribution centers called out on Friday to escalate UAW’s ”stand-up strike” against the Big Three Automakers.

Wisconsin Autoworkers Are Bundling Firewood for a Winter Picket Line

By Isabela Escalona | September 25, 2023

Called out on strike on Friday, GM workers in Hudson, Wis., are ready for the long haul.

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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.

Bargaining
a woman in a pink and white blouse stands behind a podium with a sign on it that reads "patients before profits" in red, white, and black. a camera in the foreground is pointed at her and a line of nurses in red shirts lined up behind her in front of a backdrop with the MNA logo

Hospital nurses in Twin Cities, Duluth vote to authorize strike

By Michael Moore (Union Advocate) | August 17, 2022

On August 15, facing multiple public health crises, 15,000 nurses voted to authorize a strike in the Twin Cities and Duluth areas.

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A group of workers and union members wearing white shirts and red hats stand in a large crowd with their fists raised

A First Contract for Mexican GM Plant’s Independent Union

By Alejandra Quintero (Labor Notes) | July 7, 2022

SINTTIA, the independent union that ousted an employer-friendly union at a GM plant in central Mexico, won its first contract in May.

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Minneapolis Teachers Protesting

Striking Minneapolis educators reach tentative agreements with school district

By Steve Share (Minneapolis Labor Review) | March 25, 2022

Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Educational Support Professionals announced early today that negotiators for both teachers and ESPs had reached tentative agreements with the Minneapolis Public Schools.

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Protestors in front of Cub Food

Bakery Workers are taking their contract fight to UNFI Cub Foods’ customers

By Michael Moore (Union Advocate) | March 17, 2022

If you’d love to shop a Cub that isn’t trying to strip its bakers of their union health and pension benefits, then Bakery Workers Local 22 has a list of stores for you.

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Teaches Strike

The Strike Wave Sweeps the Twin Cities 

By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez | March 15, 2022

Minneapolis teachers and Education Support Professionals (ESP) entered the second week of their strike. Spirits remain high on the various picket lines all over the city. 

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a group of workers wearing purple tee shirts hold up signs, one worker toward the front left holds up a sign saying "unions for all"

Minneapolis Public Schools Food Service Workers Vote to Authorize Strike

By Amie Stager | March 3, 2022

Food service workers from Minneapolis Public Schools, who’ve been waiting on a contract for a year and a half, have become the fourth union in the Twin Cities to authorize a strike in recent events.

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High Rise Victory

High Rise Window Cleaner Strike is Over

By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez | August 26, 2021

High rise window cleaners who have been on an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike for ten days reached a tentative agreement early this morning at 1 a.m. to end their strike.

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