Community
The Deadly Race
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How Amazon Hooked America on Fast Delivery While Avoiding Responsibility for Crashes
Investigative
The Grime Behind the Stage
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Dancers are treated as independent contractors who are limited in their ability to protect their economic interests.
Essay
Regulation vs. Reality
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Indeed, the long history of sexual use regulation in Minneapolis demonstrates a preoccupation with morality and real estate. What we haven’t seen enough of are regulations that focus on the workers themselves and attempt to address labor issues like workplace conditions, fair wages, and workers’ health and well-being. Regulation and reality clearly don’t line up, at least not from a labor perspective. Individuals in positions of power would do well to listen to those for whom erotic dancing is a career and who are most directly affected by adult entertainment ordinances.
Investigative
Consumer Grocery Co-op Consolidation is Lucrative for Some
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Our network of sources and our own research is giving evidence to a dense network of co-op managers and administrators and associated national organizations who protect their own interests in stark contrast to the values of democratic participation imbued with being a co-op “owner.”
Immigration
The Fight Against Labor Trafficking Expands
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Momentum is building in Minneapolis and throughout Minnesota to challenge labor trafficking and its root causes.
Investigative
Board Packets Reveal What is Generating Financial Problems at Seward
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The underlying issues at Seward are related to the fumbled expansion and opening of the Friendship Store and the Co-op Creamery.
Investigative
At Seward Community Co-op, Workers get Squeezed as Financial Problems Mount
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The mismanagement that has led to financial losses is disproportionately affecting workers on the floor.
Co-Ops
Seward Community Co-op is Facing Unprecedented Financial Challenges
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Internal documents reveal that Seward is struggling to meet its own sales projections while habitually understaffing.
Community
Plasma Centers Profit off of the Challenges Facing the Working Poor
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“I’ll do anything to make money as long as it’s legal,” Cody said outside of BioLife in Maple Grove. Similar to Claire, he has been donating plasma twice a week for three years.