Climate Change
Heat Waves Are Putting Teamsters in Danger
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UPS workers say the company is not doing enough to protect employees from scorching temperatures.
Hospital nurses in Twin Cities, Duluth vote to authorize strike
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On August 15, facing multiple public health crises, 15,000 nurses voted to authorize a strike in the Twin Cities and Duluth areas.
Elections
Minneapolis Trader Joe’s workers aim to unionize second store in U.S.
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Workers allege the company has deployed unfair labor practices ahead of next week’s union vote.
Commentary
Yes, Abortion Rights Are a Union Issue
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Organized labor has an important role to play in the struggle for reproductive justice.
A First Contract for Mexican GM Plant’s Independent Union
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SINTTIA, the independent union that ousted an employer-friendly union at a GM plant in central Mexico, won its first contract in May.
Government
Unions decry Supreme Court ruling, urge action to protect abortion access
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Several union leaders in Minnesota remain committed to protecting working people’s right to and access to abortion.
Commentary
The Creative Methods Workers Are Using to Stop Bosses’ Abuse
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Why we need to enforce worker protections to build the labor movement we want.
Elections
Union election begins for over 400 Planned Parenthood workers
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Following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, hundreds of workers at Planned Parenthood begin voting for their union election.
Community
Women Building Success celebrates tradeswomen at awards ceremony
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Union tradeswomen and labor leaders gathered June 1 in White Bear Lake for the Women Building Success Awards
Homepage Featured
Twin Cities Nurses Picket, Demand Hospitals put Patients over Profits
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On a combined picket line outside United and Children’s hospitals in St. Paul, nurses said the crisis facing their profession demands urgency and bold action to keep nurses from leaving the bedside.