Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/unions/page/12/)
Local unions are stepping up this winter to connect thousands of Minnesotans with free, fresh food available through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families Food Box program.
Despite putting their health at risk while providing essential care during the pandemic, paraprofessionals in the West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan Area Schools learned Tuesdy night that the district will lay off up to 12 full-time workers from their ranks and replace them with temporary hires.
‘Karen did not just lead our movement. Karen was our movement.’
Nearly 200 Teamsters, along with community members and elected officials, are collectively resisting the company’s efforts to replace staffing at the Marathon oil refinery in St. Paul Park.
A century of agrarian organizing pays off.
The “Minnesota Safe Workplaces for Meat and Poultry Processing Workers Act” seeks to protect workers by ensuring their rights and benefits to a safe workplace.
“Governor Walz’s budget proposal is a bold plan that invests in priorities to help working people recover from the COVID-19 pandemic while laying out a vision for a more just and equitable state.”
Minnesota’s union membership rate increased from 13.7% of the workforce in 2019 to 15.8%.
Teamsters report that Union employees offered to return to work last week. In a move the Union calls astounding and incredibly reckless, Employees were denied entry when they went to work.
Even before COVID, many seniors, people with disabilities, and the families that support them are without the care that they need to stay safely in their homes. It is expected that the increase in wages and benefits will play a key role in combating the care crisis.