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Jennifer Schultz has been cancer free for over two years, but being free from the debt she’s amassed in her battles with the illness feels a long way off for the four-time survivor from St. Paul. “Sometimes it feels like I’m in a constant cycle of medical debt,” Schultz told labor, faith and community activists […]
Mac student workers hope to bargain for better pay and protected, respectful lines of communication with their supervisors.
Educators Lakeville, Burnsville and across Minnesota are being bold in their contract demands this bargaining cycle, sticking together for compensation gains that, union members say, are overdue after years of underfunding.
Lunds & Byerly’s workers bargained a first-in-the-nation process to develop policies covering violent events in their stores.
About 600 workers at Activision Central Quality Assurance, including 334 in Eden Prairie, won voluntary union recognition from Microsoft, the firm’s parent company.
“Going on strike will still be financially challenging, but at least workers won’t be starved back to work,” one union member said.
St. Paul educators voted this week to ratify new union contracts that will improve their pay and benefits while upholding the in-classroom supports they won in previous bargaining cycles. “Educators often bargain for things that are outside of those bread-and-butter issues,” St. Paul Federation of Educators President Leah VanDassor said. “This time around, we’re really […]
Education Minnesota is making pension reform a legislative priority as disparities that have been baked into the Teachers Retirement Association since 1989 are coming to a head.
“We were told they were building the plane as they were flying it, and that we’d be failing forward together.”
SPFE has set up an online form for supporters to email board members.
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