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University of Minnesota Food Service Workers Allege Discrimination and Abuse

By Amie Stager

No Wheat, Milk, Rice, Medicines: How the U.S. and Israel Are Starving Yemen

This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. It is the second part in a series about how U.S. policy impacts working-class people in Yemen. The first one was published in 2023 and showed how the Biden administration was contributing to policies that made it near impossible for poor people in Yemen to get medical care to treat dire health conditions. At Workday Magazine, we report on the lives of poor and working people not only in Minnesota and the Midwest, but around the world.

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Minnesota

One Grocery Worker’s Fight to Defend What Matters Most

Ryan Christensen is a 52-year-old grocery worker for Lunds & Byerlys, where he has been for 38 years. Christensen says that what was once a strong, family-supporting job has deteriorated over time. He was one of 9,000 grocery employees working on an expired contract across the Twin Cities Metro rallying under the demand “One good […]
Immigration

“For the Workers, Not the Billionaires”: Minnesota’s May Day Actions

Thousands of workers gathered on the steps of the Minnesota state capitol on May 1, or International Workers Day, un support of union and immigrant rights. Photo by Amie Stager.
International

Grocery Workers VS Goliath

This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. In early February, when temperatures in Denver plunged to seven degrees below zero and snow dusted the sidewalks, Martin Bonilla, bundled in two jackets and a neck warmer, walked a picket line 1,000 miles from his home of Fillmore, Calif. Bonilla works in the produce department […]
Midwest

Construction Bosses Are Using Elaborate Schemes to Harm Workers

This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and The American Prospect. In 2020, Alejandro was working a construction job in the Madison, Wisconsin, metro area, doing texture, painting, and drywall on residential homes, when his boss asked him to do something strange. The boss gave Alejandro a check, and told him to go […]
History

Three Times Workers Resisted Fascism in Minnesota History

Historical examples of workers resisting the oligarchical forces of fascism and authoritarianism.
Minnesota

University of Minnesota Unions Say University is Capitulating to Trump Admin, Rally Against Detention of International Student

On March 31, workers, students, and allies rallied together on the steps of Johnston Hall, which contains the office of the University of Minnesota President Rebecca Cunningham’s, to protest what they criticize as the University’s failure to forcefully object to ICE’s recent abduction of a graduate student, and an onslaught of University policies limiting the […]