Organizing
What Captive Audience Meetings Are—And Why Minnesota’s Labor Movement Wants to Ban Them
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Why workers say captive audience meetings are coercive and unfair.
Workers
She Refused To Take a Drug Test Before Getting a Workplace Injury Treated—And Was Fired
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A worker’s arm was mangled in a machine. Before treatment, a manager requested a drug test.
Organizing
Starbucks Is Trying to Wear Workers Down Through Its Relentless “Soft” Union Busting
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Amid a historic unionizing campaign across the country, workers are continuing to organize despite Starbucks ‘soft’ union-busting tactics.
Organizing
What Nurses and Teachers Won By Withholding Their “Feminized Labor”
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It is no surprise that out of the hundreds of strikes that began last year, two historic ones occurred in Minnesota, where feminized workers withheld their labor to demand better working conditions, hold their employers accountable, and stand up against greed for collective good and care.
Commentary
The Lie at the Heart of Politicians’ “Job Creation” Rhetoric
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When they want to wage war or destroy the planet, American political elites are obsessed with “job creation.” When workers start accruing a modest amount of power, elites demand increased unemployment.
News
As Afghans Suffer, U.S. Stalls on Plan to Return Central Bank Funds
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In September, the U.S. created a foundation that was supposed to unfreeze Afghanistan’s foreign assets. Yet, interviews with trustees reveal that, in three months, no funds have been disbursed—or concrete plans made—to help the Afghan people.
economy
The “Labor Shortage” Is Being Used as a Pretext to Harm Workers
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Lawmakers and bosses are citing a supposed lack of workers as justification for a suite of reactionary policies aimed at further squeezing the working class.
Organizing
Why Hundreds of Planned Parenthood Workers in the Midwest Unionized
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Recently unionized healthcare and nonprofit workers in the Midwest are weathering the changes to reproductive rights and access.
Unions
They Waged the Largest Private-Sector Nurses’ Strike in U.S. History. They’re Still Waiting for Justice.
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Minnesota nurses made national headlines by going on strike this fall, but as contract negotiations stall, they’re fighting for a voice on the job.
Community
Unions honor fallen tradespeople on Workers Memorial Day
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The annual day of reflection is also the anniversary of the creation of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 1971.