Labor Rallies to Support Striking Steelworkers in Blaine

About 220 members of United Steelworkers Local 63B began an unfair-labor-practices strike Saturday (11/2) at the Blaine plant, which supplies parts to aerospace and other firms. Their picket line swelled with supporters over the lunch hour Friday after a call for solidarity circulated throughout the local labor movement

Filiberto Nolasco Gomez is a former union organizer and former editor of Minneapolis based Workday Minnesota, the first online labor news publication in the state. Filiberto focused on longform and investigative journalism. He has covered topics including prison labor, labor trafficking, and union fights in the Twin Cities.