Government
La lucha por los estándares laborales continúa en Minneapolis
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La financiación para el co-cumplimiento de los estándares laborales ha sido aprobada, mientras que una propuesta del Concejo de Estándares Laborales está en juego.
Minnesota
Audio-Visual Crew for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx Win Union
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After decades of misclassification and one failed union vote in 2017, the Timberwolves and Lynx audio-visual crew won their union—making them the second audio-visual union in Minnesota professional sports.
Government
The Fight for Labor Standards Continues in Minneapolis
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Funding for labor standards co-enforcement is approved as a Labor Standards Board proposal hangs in the balance.
Minnesota
Wall Street Took Over a Vital Sign Language Service—And Started Union Busting
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This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. “Do no harm” is the guiding principle of American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters’ professional code of conduct. But when Joe Klug, 28, worked as a Video Relay Service (VRS) interpreter for a Twin Cities metro area office of Purple Communications, he says this principle was routinely violated. The VRS field, which allows Deaf and Hard of Hearing people to make phone calls by video interfacing with interpreters, is difficult and fast-paced work. While some calls are social, others can be serious: medical emergencies, job interviews, jargon-heavy discussions with lawyers or sensitive conversations with doctors.
Minnesota
Audio-Visual Crew for the Timberwolves and Lynx Set to Vote for a Union, a Decade in the Making
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The professional Minnesota basketball teams’ audio and visual crew are set to vote by mail after union busting and decades of misclassification.
Minnesota
Minneapolis City Council Approves Labor Standards Board as Mayor Weighs Support
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After a lengthy discussion, the Minneapolis City Council voted 9 to 3 to approve an ordinance that would bring workers, business, and community together in a Labor Standards Board.
Minnesota
“Everyone loses”: Report Finds that Minnesota Workers Lose Billions of Dollars Annually Due to Payroll Fraud
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A new report estimates that approximately 10% of private sector workers were misclassified in 2019 in Minnesota and billions of dollars lost to fund public safety nets.
Co-Ops
Workers Win Union Election at Mississippi Market Co-op
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Workers at the local organic food co-op who organized and won union representation are hoping to build a more democratic workplace.
Minnesota
Minnesota Labor Is Reviving a Progressive-Era Tool to Improve Working Conditions
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Workers are fighting for a Labor Standards Board to address conditions across industries.
Art
Still Lives of Workers in Motion
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“Archive in Motion: The ATU Workers of Metro Transit”, a photography exhibition, is on display at the East Side Freedom Library, in St. Paul, Minn. featuring the photographs of Leslie Grant and Jeffrey Skemp of the workers of Metro Transit. The exhibit features film photographs of various transit workers, represented by Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005, honoring the essential work they do and the importance of public transit in bringing people together in a shared public space.
The exhibition includes portraits of the workers while on the job, as well as still-life photographs of objects bus operators carry with them, photos and scans of archival finds and everyday transit ephemera, and the architecture that makes up the transit system—from the mundane yet necessary infrastructure, to the wooded landscapes of the Twin Cities urban parks.
Leslie Grant, a photographer and professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and Jeffrey Skemp, photographer and poet, began the project on Metro Transit by contacting ATU Local 1005. The union then invited the photographers to join a meeting and present the project to the union members.