Amazon
How Workers Used Amazon’s Captive Audience Meetings Against the Company
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Workers flipped the script on the e-commerce giant by turning anti-union tactics into organizing opportunities.
Community
Why are Starbucks baristas unionizing?
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Workers at three local Starbucks stores have announced efforts to organize unions and file for elections.
Workers
“We Will Win”: For the First Time in 50 Years, Minneapolis Teachers Are Out on Strike
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In an interview, one striking teacher explains how community support is providing energy and optimism on the picket line.
Organizing
American Federation of Teachers announces $100,000 donation to Minneapolis educators’ strike fund
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“One day longer, one day stronger is not just a slogan,” she continued. “We’re giving your strike fund $100,000 right now.”
Bakery Workers are taking their contract fight to UNFI Cub Foods’ customers
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If you’d love to shop a Cub that isn’t trying to strip its bakers of their union health and pension benefits, then Bakery Workers Local 22 has a list of stores for you.
Organizing
The Strike Wave Sweeps the Twin Cities
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Minneapolis teachers and Education Support Professionals (ESP) entered the second week of their strike. Spirits remain high on the various picket lines all over the city.
Organizing
Health care workers put MN Epilepsy Group on notice of intent to strike
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Seeking wages and retirement benefits in line with the “world-class care” they provide, union members who work at Minnesota Epilepsy Group announced plans today for a five-day strike that could bring picket lines to clinics and hospitals across the Twin Cities.
Organizing
“We Are Fed Up”: A Second Mexican Auto Plant Moves to Organize Independent Union
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Maquiladora workers in a border city are trying to oust their employer-friendly union, and switch to a truly independent one
Organizing
With strike votes coming, Minneapolis and St. Paul teachers rally and march together
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“I’ve been teaching 25 years and it keeps getting more and more challenging,” said Ray Lynch, Minneapolis.
Organizing
Twin Cities Starbucks workers join union wave
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Workers at two Starbucks locations in the Twin Cities today announced they are forming unions, becoming the first Minnesotans to join a nationwide surge of worker organizing at the world’s largest coffeehouse chain.