A group of labor advocates, faculty, and other university staff organized to pass a reform to the 1971 law that predefined bargaining units for public employees.
Organizing
“What Could We Win Together?” Labor in Minnesota Gears up for a Major Escalation
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With a string of contracts expiring in the new year, Minnesota unions and community groups are gathering to unite around a strategy for a cleaner environment and better jobs, housing and schools.
“We Can’t Eat Prestige”: Inside the Unionization of the Science Museum of Minnesota
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The NLRB recently reinstated six workers at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Workers say the museum is still breaking labor law and failing to bargain in good faith.
Organizing
Why Do We Let Our Bosses Control Our Health Care?
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A Q&A with Rose Roach, the new national coordinator for the Labor Campaign for Single Payer, which wants to take health care off the bargaining table by establishing a single-payer health care system in the U.S.
On Campus
UMN Grad Workers Express Hope and Urgency as They Gear Up for Union Election
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Over 65% of University of Minnesota Graduate Workers have signed their union cards, an optimistic start after many attempts over the past several decades.
Organizing
What Captive Audience Meetings Are—And Why Minnesota’s Labor Movement Wants to Ban Them
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Why workers say captive audience meetings are coercive and unfair.
Amazon
High Injury Rates Push Minnesota’s Amazon Workers to Organize for Safety
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Workers are concerned about soaring rates of injury, high productivity quotas, incoherent policies, and a sudden warehouse closure.
Organizing
Starbucks Is Trying to Wear Workers Down Through Its Relentless “Soft” Union Busting
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Amid a historic unionizing campaign across the country, workers are continuing to organize despite Starbucks ‘soft’ union-busting tactics.
Organizing
What Nurses and Teachers Won By Withholding Their “Feminized Labor”
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It is no surprise that out of the hundreds of strikes that began last year, two historic ones occurred in Minnesota, where feminized workers withheld their labor to demand better working conditions, hold their employers accountable, and stand up against greed for collective good and care.
Organizing
Why Hundreds of Planned Parenthood Workers in the Midwest Unionized
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Recently unionized healthcare and nonprofit workers in the Midwest are weathering the changes to reproductive rights and access.
COVID-19
Trader Joe’s Union Campaign Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
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Trader Joe’s workers in Minneapolis won their union in a landslide vote August 12, making theirs the second store to go with the new, independent Trader Joe’s United. The win raises the question of whether the grocer, with its 530 locations and progressive image, could be the next Starbucks. It seems that Trader Joe’s management is considering becoming the next Starbucks in a different sense: closing stores and harassing workers out of union drives. A store in Boulder, Colorado, had a vote lined up for this week, but workers seeking affiliation with Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 there withdrew their petition the day after filing charges against the company for coercion and intimidation. The Trader Joe’s drives reflect an emerging theme of recent new organizing: independent versus affiliated unionism.