Medical cannabis workers ‘insulted’ by MN grower’s contract offer
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Workers feel left behind by their employer, whose demands would cut them out of gains.
Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/bargaining/page/2/)
Workers feel left behind by their employer, whose demands would cut them out of gains.
Frontline healthcare workers have reached a tentative agreement after months of bargaining with Allina Health.
Workers negotiating contracts with hospital systems across the Twin Cities express disappointment in a lack of recognition and 0% pay increase.
Employees of Allina Health facilities are striking for safer working conditions
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.”