For over 70 years the NLRB has allowed employers to use captive audience meetings to stifle organizing drives, but the board’s new general counsel wants that to change.
After pandemic hiatus, Plumbers union brings back Water’s Off service day
April 25, 2022 by
Several Twin Cities homeowners received free service through local union plumbers’ annual Water’s Off service initiative last month.
Bree Halverson: Buying clean and fair for workers and the environment
April 18, 2022 by
“Buy Clean” is a policy to promote spending taxpayer dollars on materials that are manufactured in a cleaner, more efficient, environmentally friendly manner, while supporting family-sustaining jobs and building globally competitive domestic manufacturing.
Union carpenters spotlight tax fraud in construction industry
April 14, 2022 by
Payroll fraud drains $136 million from state coffers each year in Minnesota alone, according to one recent study.
Cutting-edge geothermal system keeps Local 455 training center cool
April 4, 2022 by
“This is the first building of its kind to use this technology in the world that we’re aware of,” Local 455 Business Manager Tony Poole said. “We wanted to be on the forefront of this, and we are.”
Staff at St. Paul AIDS service organization vote to unionize
April 4, 2022 by
“There’s an HIV outbreak in Minneapolis and Duluth right now. There’s real work to do. We don’t have time to be messing around.”
With Biden’s signature, postal reform measure will lift ‘5-ton weight’ dragging down USPS
April 1, 2022 by
After more than a decade of advocacy in Congress and sometimes in the streets, USPS employees and their unions celebrated a landmark victory last month.
Bakery Workers are taking their contract fight to UNFI Cub Foods’ customers
March 17, 2022 by
If you’d love to shop a Cub that isn’t trying to strip its bakers of their union health and pension benefits, then Bakery Workers Local 22 has a list of stores for you.
‘Insulting’ wage offer prompts strike at MN Epilepsy Group
March 14, 2022 by
Workers called the five-day strike after management stuck to its demand for annual wage increases of less than 1% in last-ditch contract negotiations Tuesday.
St. Paul educators settle contract, pivot to supporting Minneapolis strikers
March 9, 2022 by
With a tentative agreement in hand, St. Paul educators urged support for their union siblings in Minneapolis, where 4,000 members of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and its chapter of education support professionals began an open-ended strike yesterday.
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