Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/unions/page/10/)
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.
“Marathon has been going down this pathway for a long time,” Don Mullin, executive secretary of the St. Paul Building and Construction Trades Council, said. “They’ve been taking on efforts to be anti-organized labor because that’s the way they do it in other states.”
“With demand for emergency food assistance at an all-time high during the pandemic, it’s been amazing to see local unions step up this winter to connect more Minnesota families with free, fresh food available through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families Food Box program,” Regional Labor Federation President Kera Peterson said.
Fearing a threat to more than 100 years of worker gains, “This entire union is focused on dealing with Amazon.”
The film stimulus bill is designed to encourage out-of-state production companies to come here to make their content, employing Minnesotans, buying Minnesota goods and services, and paying Minnesota taxes, while building a foundation for that industry to thrive here