Commentary
If “Cancel Culture” Is About Getting Fired, Let’s Cancel At-Will Employment
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You know what should be canceled? The legal right of most bosses to fire you for a “good cause, bad cause, or no cause.”
#GeorgeFloyd
Minneapolis Ballot Measure to Dismantle the Police Will Test the Strength of Our Movement
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The fight to win the charter amendment will also be stronger if our movement calls for demilitarizing the police, banning chemical weapons, firing all cops with repeated abuse complaints, and creating an elected oversight board with full powers over the new department.
Government
Flight Attendants Tell Airlines: Don’t Even Think About Concessions
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The COVID-19 crisis hit airline workers with speed and devastation. Passenger flow through TSA checkpoints fell 97 percent in March compared to a year earlier. In the months since, travel demand has only barely recovered, to 20 percent of a year ago.
#GeorgeFloyd
Reflections from the Powderhorn Park Encampment
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The exploitation of poor and working-class people is also coming at the hands of people who believe they’re doing good.
#GeorgeFloyd
Minnesota Labor Can Lead The Nation as we Reimagine Public Safety Together
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‘To me, addressing the harm of policing is certainly a labor issue and we should be fighting for a labor movement free from jobs that harm and dehumanize us as workers as well as those with whom we interact. We have that opportunity in Minnesota right now.’
Commentary
I’m Proud That My Union Just Urged the AFL-CIO to Kick Out Police Unions
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The calls to separate the labor movement from police unions are now coming from inside the house of labor.
Commentary
A Call to Action from Essential Workers
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On May 6th I tested positive for COVID-19. All the weeks of fear, anger and grief that I had suppressed–in order to keep working, keep my loved ones calm, keep helping neighbors who had it even worse–it all came crashing in. And with it, an odd sense of relief.
Commentary
Walz’s Worker Protections in His Latest Executive Orders Fall Short
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An empowered workforce is a safe workforce, pure and simple. Governor Walz should give workers – not their bosses – the right to decide if they feel their workplace is safe. Nothing else will do more to keep Minnesotans alive in this crisis.
Commentary
Lessons from Labor History Can Inform our Labor Movement During COVID-19 Crisis
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The current situation has led us to reconsider the Minneapolis Teamsters strikes of 1934. Their dramatic story shows that the labor movement is strongest when unions boldly organize workers on the job and in the community around a shared vision of fairness and justice.
Commentary
On Workers Memorial Day and International Workers Day
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‘No Matter How Much We Flatten The Curve These Workers Are Most at Risk.’