Shawn Gordon, a member of Teamsters Local 41 from Kansas City, Mo., travels across the country with Thunder and Lightning, raising awareness of the Teamsters’ early history.
Investment, worker voice critical to addressing care crisis
September 23, 2021 by
We need to pivot from treating care as a problem for individuals and toward understanding that it is a shared experience across our society.
Frustration builds as lawmakers blow deadline for plan to pay frontline workers
September 22, 2021 by
Workers accuse politicians of holding up the process in an attempt to pit frontline workers against each other.
As driver shortage hampers start of school, unions point to low pay, benefits
September 22, 2021 by
Access to unemployment insurance would help retain drivers through the lean times, advocates said.
MN nurse on Biden task force: ‘I’m the one who brings reality’
September 22, 2021 by
“I may not be the one who can bring all the fancy data, but what I am is the only frontline worker with eyewitness testimony,” Mary Turner said. “I’m the one who brings reality.”
Minnesota AFL-CIO wraps 55th convention with call for solidarity
September 21, 2021 by
Delegates reflected on the importance of solidarity during times of crisis, and reaffirmed their commitment to building a just, inclusive labor movement.
Jennifer Christensen: ‘We really are dedicated, as a union, to everyone doing better’
August 24, 2021 by
Jennifer Christensen’s career with the United Food and Commercial Workers started over 30 years ago as a part-time deli worker at Cub Foods, and it will end this month, when she retires as president of South St. Paul- and Duluth-based UFCW Local 1189.
Leadership changes, but Trades’ focus remains on building careers, communities
July 22, 2021 by
A new president gaveled the 75th convention of the Minnesota State Building and Construction Trades Council to order at Madden’s on Gull Lake today, as delegates unanimously affirmed their Executive Board in electing Laborers Local 563 Business Manager Joe Fowler to lead the statewide organization. President Emeritus Harry Melander, who retired in June after […]
Roofers local’s new secretary-treasurer breaks ground as first woman elected to office
July 21, 2021 by
Samantha Schanus was among four Tradeswomen Heroes award winners named in July, the month she took office as Roofers Local 96’s new secretary-treasurer.
Minnesota organizing drive puts the ‘union’ back in ACLU
July 19, 2021 by
After a speedy organizing drive that took just two months, eligible staff at the ACLU of Minnesota won voluntary recognition from the 70-year-old civil rights organization July 2.
Union Advocate 