Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/minnesota/page/2/)
The professional Minnesota basketball teams’ audio and visual crew are set to vote by mail after union busting and decades of misclassification.
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.
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.
Workers at the local organic food co-op who organized and won union representation are hoping to build a more democratic workplace.
Workers are fighting for a Labor Standards Board to address conditions across industries.
“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.
A conversation with Steve Share from the Minneapolis Labor Review.
Despite the popularity of unions being at a record high, workers in the food service industry face an uphill battle when it comes to fighting for collective bargaining rights. Hospitality unions and workers are trying to change that.
A cook and farmer on climate, labor, and the community organizing ecosystem in Minnesota.
This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and The American Prospect. Michael Rubke, a desk attendant at La Rive condo complex in Minneapolis, is fighting for a union against a behemoth building management company, FirstService Residential of Minnesota, that has a near-monopoly on high-rise condos in the Twin Cities. It’s been a difficult battle so far. The unionization campaign is “at square one,” the 41-year-old explained over the phone after working an overnight shift. “They’re pretending we’re not there.”
But that lack of formal union representation did not stop Rubke and his colleagues throughout the Twin Cities from fighting for—and winning—statewide legislation this summer that improves the terms of their jobs, by beating back a little-known provision used to erode the job security of contracted workers.