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As back-to-school shopping season ramps up, the American Federation of Teachers is urging educators and families nationwide to stock up on supplies someplace other than Target. The union’s “Shop Smart, Support Working Families” campaign is a response to Target’s refusal to condemn the unlawful Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity that continues to roil communities around […]
BLOOMINGTON – Video game workers rallied Aug. 18 for a fair first contract with their Microsoft-owned publishing firm, while also standing in solidarity with workers across the country fighting layoffs and corporate greed in Microsoft’s gaming studios. Members of Activision Quality Assurance United, an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), held “Save Our […]
Minnesota’s largest labor federation accused the Trump administration of “bringing back McCarthyism” after court filings exposed wide-reaching federal surveillance of local unions during the deadly and chaotic immigration dragnet last winter. While purportedly investigating a criminal conspiracy to impede Operation Metro Surge, Department of Homeland Security agents infiltrated a meeting at the United Labor Center […]
Nurses ended their strike at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s Center City campus this week, settling a first contract that, union members say, will address concerns that sparked their historic organizing campaign. Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association’s bargaining unit – about 60 nurses in all – voted to ratify the contract today. Union negotiators […]
Twin Cities postal workers rallied to raise awareness about threats to Minnesotans’ mail service coming out of Washington, D.C.
Nurses bargaining a first union contract with the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation launched an open-ended strike July 15 at the renowned addiction-treatment facility in Center City, and their picket line remains up after two bargaining sessions this week. Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) voted to authorize a strike nearly a year into negotiations. […]
An independent report issued last month by North Star Policy Action digs into the factors behind Minnesotans’ rapidly rising healthcare costs, warning that proposed health-system acquisitions could make things worse. The report comes as two Minnesota-based health systems, North Memorial and Allina, are in the process of being sold to South Dakota-based Sanford and California-based […]
Workers at the climbing gyms in Minneapolis and St. Paul went public with their organizing drive earlier this month.
The Twin Cities area has its fifth union bookstore, after workers at the Half Price Books in Apple Valley voted last month to organize with United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 663.
Union members made history June 22, staging the first ever strike at a Twin Cities sports stadium.
