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Every Life Is a World: Sarah Jaffe on the Power of Collective Grief
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An argument for public memorialization as a path through the crises of capitalism.
Minnesota
How Academia’s Over Reliance on Contingent Faculty Hurts Workers and Students’ Quality of Education
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Adjunct and contingent faculty make up the majority of instructional staff at colleges and universities today. Faith Ericson explains what that means for these highly qualified and underpaid workers and the role of liberal arts education outside of major city centers.
Minnesota
“Finally Somebody’s Fighting For Us”: Grocery Store Workers are Fed Up
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How grocery store workers in Greater Minnesota fighting for better pay and working conditions are sticking together and transforming their union.
Minnesota
Minnesota Unions Push for Bill Extending Unemployment Insurance to Striking Workers
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Catina Taylor has worked as a special educational assistant for the past 25 years in Minneapolis Public Schools. She’s a member of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers 59 (MFT 59) and President of the Education Support Professionals (ESPs). In 2022, Minneapolis teachers went on strike for three weeks. Taylor was on the picket line—she remembers not being able to feel her feet in the cold. Although she looks back fondly on the “historic” strike, she adds that it was a financially difficult time for many members.
Going on strike is one of the most powerful tools workers have, but can be a difficult choice for workers to forgo weeks of pay in the hopes of making greater gains for the long term.
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Iron Range Childcare Worker on Organizing for Better Care for Children
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How a childcare worker and mom living and working in Minnesota’s Iron Range would like to see the industry better support workers and children alike.
Across Industries, Minnesota Workers Are Harnessing Their Collective Power
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Minnesota workers and community groups have worked toward this moment for over a decade. It’s paying off.
Workers
La historia laboral más importante en este momento está en Minnesota. Podría ser el modelo que todos necesitamos.
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Brenda Johnson de la Federación de Maestros de Minneapolis Local 59 y Eva López de SEIU Local 26 en una reunión en octubre de 2023 donde muchos de los grupos comunitarios y sindicatos alineados alrededor de la fecha límite de hoy del 2 de marzo elaboraron estrategias sobre la mejor manera de aprovechar su poder colectivo. (PHOTO CREDIT: CORTESIA DE GEOFF DITTBERNER, SEIU MINNESOTA)
Workers
The Most Important Labor Story Right Now Is in Minnesota—It Might Be the Model We All Need
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A strategic alignment of major networks of unions and community groups in Minnesota have worked together for more than a decade to leverage their collective power.
Metro Transit Workers Say Improving Transit Starts with Better Working Conditions
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ATU 1005 members discuss pay, staffing, safety as TA is reached.
“We Can’t Eat Prestige”: Inside the Unionization of the Science Museum of Minnesota
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The NLRB recently reinstated six workers at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Workers say the museum is still breaking labor law and failing to bargain in good faith.