Strike Ends, But Educators Vow to Fight on for Public Schools
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St. Paul educators set out last May to bargain a contract in the public good. When they went on strike this week, the public was right there standing with them.
Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/bargaining/page/2/)
St. Paul educators set out last May to bargain a contract in the public good. When they went on strike this week, the public was right there standing with them.
After four months of negotiations, culminating in a marathon 22-hour bargaining session that ended at 7:00 a.m. Saturday morning, the 4,000 commercial janitors with SEIU Local 26 reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) with their employers
Members of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and HealthPartners management reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) at 3 a.m. this morning after 17 hours of negotiations.
About 750 members of Teamsters Local 320 who work as teaching assistants in the St. Paul Public Schools will vote soon on a proposed two-year contract with the district. .
“You get pretty used to hearing, ‘This is the best we can do for you,’ and sitting back and going, ‘well, OK,’” said Riemenschneider, an office nurse and union steward. “This time we didn’t. Sometimes you need to do that. You need to stand up for yourself.”
“We’re just hoping to get equality,” said Tom Allen, who has been a mechanic for two years and was working the picket at the St. Louis County garage on Jean Duluth Road. “We’re looking to be long-term employees and we do a good job. We’re out here working for equal pay and equal rights.”
Ahead of a potential massive strike this week, Chicago teachers are pushing the limits of social justice unionism.
In a major victory for nursing home workers, members of SEIU Healthcare reached an agreement with Elk River-based Guardian Angels. The agreement was reached Friday and ratified in overwhelming numbers Monday afternoon.
Adjunct professors at the University of St. Thomas, the third group of St. Paul college educators to file a petition to unionize with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), are scheduled to have their ballots sent out on July 3.
Arturo Sanchez is accustomed to working outside in all kinds of weather, making concrete products at Cretex Companies. He didn’t mind the hard work, he said, because he was earning a decent living and putting money into a pension plan for the day he would retire.