Policy
“We’re not being taken care of”: Essential Workers Call on Legislature for Relief
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The Essential Workers Emergency Leave Act would allow essential workers to take paid leave to care for themselves and family members.
Unions
Teamsters take fight to Marathon as refinery dispute enters fifth month
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Some Teamsters picket at the refinery’s entrance, and some follow trucks to picket where they unload.
Amazon
Outside Amazon fulfillment center, workers demand tax fairness
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“I’m tired from working in this building behind me for over a year during the coronavirus pandemic and having to deal with all the stupid stuff Amazon does all the time – and they get away with.”
Unions
Walz joins Building Trades unions in remembering fallen workers
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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
More local nonprofit workers take union drives public
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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.
Unions
St. Paul Union Activists Expel National Guard from Labor Center
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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.
Community
A Film Stimulus Bill for Minnesota
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If the bill is passed, it is poised to potentially bring millions yearly into the state’s economy from producers that would begin using the incentive to produce the backlog of on hold productions.
Organizing
Citing Unfair Labor Practices, 1,300 Steelworkers Strike in Five States
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United Steelworkers members claim Allegheny Technologies Incorporated is refusing to provide essential bargaining information.
Workers
Celebrating Women in the Trades
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Women are less likely than men to go into the building and construction trades, but a few Minnesota programs are trying to change that.
Government
After ‘six years of purgatory,’ retirees celebrate pension fix with Smith
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The emergency funds will protect pension benefits earned by 1.5 million active and retired workers nationwide, including about 22,000 Minnesota retirees who paid into the Central States Pension Fund.