The labor movement is split on the question of cops. While union officials have signaled their tempered support for police unions, the push to expel law enforcement from the movement has grown quickly in the rank-and-file.
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Protestors Assemble as the Trial of Former Officer Derek Chauvin Begins
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Demonstrators took to the streets of Downtown Minneapolis to demand justice for the murder of George Floyd. The protestors were matched by a foreboding and undeniable presence of military equipment and various levels of barricades.
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Brooklyn Teamsters Protest UPS Harassment of Black Shop Stewards
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A hundred members of Teamsters Local 804 gathered outside a Brooklyn UPS hub July 20 to protest management’s harassment of a Black shop steward and efforts to divide the workforce along racial lines.
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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.
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St. Paul Nursing Home Workers Want Respect for Their Essential Work, and They’re on Strike to Get it
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On a day when working people in over 25 cities across the U.S. joined a union-backed Strike for Black Lives, nursing home workers at Cerenity Humboldt Care Center in St. Paul staged a 24-hour strike, demanding a contract that reflects their essential work.
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‘To be Black in Minnesota is to be Able to Live Wounded by Racism’
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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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Former Employees Challenge Angel Food Bakeries Commitment to #BLM
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The recent sympathy towards #BLM is a reflection of corporate opportunism.
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Tattersall Workers are Trying to Form a Union
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Earlier today Tattersall workers made public their intention to form a union.
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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.
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It’s Time to Make Black Lives Matter in Our Unions
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The Movement for Black Lives is encouraging union members to plan “Labor for Black Lives” actions in their communities on Friday, June 19—Juneteenth.
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Union President Says Minneapolis Is Trying to Punish Transit Workers Who Wouldn’t Help the Police
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In These Times spoke with Ryan Timlin, the president of ATU Local 1005, about the impact of the union’s actions on the lives of its members, and on the political climate.