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'To be Black in Minnesota is to be Able to Live Wounded by Racism'

By Cassie Williams | July 9, 2020

George Floyd was not simply murdered by a knee on his neck, but by generations of open wounds worn raw from Black men and women and people of color being killed for simply existing.

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Community

State Building Trades convention asks Governor Walz to call special session to pass bonding bill, complete unfinished business of 2022 legislature

Commentary

Blood, "Sweat" and tears: The Guthrie Theater's take on the human cost of the economy

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Community

Transition and transformation at the Labor Education Service

Women Building Success Winners
Community

Women Building Success celebrates tradeswomen at awards ceremony

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Community

Unions honor fallen tradespeople on Workers Memorial Day

By Michael Moore (Union Advocate) | April 28, 2022

The annual day of reflection is also the anniversary of the creation of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 1971.

Community

Local labor movement’s solidarity vital for MFT

By Steve Share (Minneapolis Labor Review) | April 26, 2022

MFT’S strike fund continues to seek contributions

Commentary
Eviction Notice

How to Aid Seniors Who Need Help Paying Rent

By Don Hammen, Mary Morris, Rita Doucet, Chris Nelson, Tim Mungavin and Tom Beer | April 1, 2022

As the fastest growing segment of the homeless population, according to a recent Wilder Foundation report, low-income seniors do need a lot of help, and now.

Community
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Why are Starbucks baristas unionizing?

By Amie Stager | March 25, 2022

Workers at three local Starbucks stores have announced efforts to organize unions and file for elections.

Community
Shar Knutson

Remembering Shar Knutson: ‘Her presence will be missed, but her legacy lives on’

By Michael Moore (Union Advocate) | February 23, 2022

Labor leaders who worked with Knutson recalled her attention to detail, quiet resolve and ambition

Wage Theft
Workers at Soda Stream Factory

In a Single Year, $1.78 Trillion Was Taken From the Working Class

By Eric Dirnbach and Colleen Boyle | February 4, 2022

The wealth workers should have received, had wages kept up with productivity, was instead given to shareholders.

Community
Bill McCarthy administers the oath of office to Bernie Burnham.

Burnham sworn in as first person of color to lead MN AFL-CIO

By Michael Moore (Union Advocate) | February 2, 2022

In a ceremony broadcast live on the federation’s social media platforms, outgoing Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy swore his successor, Bernie Burhnam, into the state’s highest-ranking union office today.

Community

MN unions grew in 2021, bucking national trend

By Michael Moore (Union Advocate) | January 24, 2022

Minnesota bucked the national trend of declining union membership last year, as the state’s union rolls grew by 18,000 workers.

Community
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Martin Luther King Jr., Union Man

By Peter Cole | January 17, 2022

If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions.

Community
Concrete Christmas

Concrete Christmas display showcases union apprentices’ skills

By Michael Moore (Union Advocate) | December 9, 2021

It already looks a lot like Christmas at the Cement Masons and Plasterers Training Center in New Brighton, where apprentices from three local unions have decked out the shop floor with a seasonal display of their skilled crafts.

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