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As special session nears, unions push lawmakers to prioritize working people
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After a year of pandemic-induced economic and emotional hardship, workers are pushing the government for more relief.
Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/unions/page/10/)
After a year of pandemic-induced economic and emotional hardship, workers are pushing the government for more relief.
Workers at Duke University Press recently announced their intent to unionize and improve workplace conditions for staff members of color.
Frontline healthcare workers have reached a tentative agreement after months of bargaining with Allina Health.
In a ceremony today on the State Capitol grounds, Gov. Tim Walz and Labor Commissioner Roslyn Robertson joined members of Twin Cities Building Trades unions in paying tribute to workers who died in the past two years due to work-related injuries or illnesses.
Organizing among Twin Cities nonprofit workers continues to bear fruit, as employees at two local organizations, Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative and Headway Emotional Health Services, have gone public with union campaigns this month.
Essential workers at United Hospital are ready to strike if that’s what it takes to get a fair contract with Allina Health.
After they discovered that 50 National Guardsmen was using the hall as a staging hall, many union members objected, noting that an executive board member of the Federation had decided to give the National Guard troops keys and access to the hall decision without a vote of the executive council of the St. Paul Regional Labor Federation.
United Steelworkers members claim Allegheny Technologies Incorporated is refusing to provide essential bargaining information.
Transit workers staged a daylong demonstration outside the Bureau of Mediation Services in St. Paul, where their union resumed contract negotiations with Metro Transit this week, hoping to put a human face on their fight for hazard pay, safety protections and respect.
Outraged and unreserved, Christner, Marlatt and dozens of other family members and friends took over the Teamsters Local 120 picket line outside the refinery March 11, showing the depth of community support behind nearly 200 union members who have been locked out by Marathon since Jan. 22.