School employees have been fighting to change the law restricting their access to UI benefits for decades. Now, the pandemic has brought the issue to a tipping point.
Excluded from unemployment benefits, hourly school workers speak out: ‘It is insulting’
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MN nurses union backs mask mandate
July 7, 2020 by
Nurses say masks could help “stave off a resurgence of the vicious COVID-19 virus that has ravaged this state.”
More than a building, a building block on city’s East Side
May 8, 2020 by
There’s a new book about St. Paul’s East Side Freedom Library, and it offers “a nicely woven story about a place, a people and a public space,” according to our reviewer.
Pandemic likely to alter unions’ political push, but how?
May 7, 2020 by
Labor groups are working on contingency plans as traditional election work, like door knocking, might not be feasible this year.
McCollum focused on keeping workers, families safe during crisis
May 6, 2020 by
President Trump “failed miserably” to prepare for and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, she said in a Q&A with The Union Advocate.
Lessons from labor history can inform our labor movement during COVID-19 crisis
May 4, 2020 by
The Minneapolis Teamsters strikes of 1934 offer lessons valuable to our present challenge.
Unions hold vigil for workers exposed to COVID-19
May 2, 2020 by
“To workers who have contracted COVID, this is for you,” Minnesota Nurses Association President Mary Turner said.
As mail volumes plummet, unions push Congress for relief
May 1, 2020 by
Postal workers, letter carriers are fighting for their jobs – and worried about their health.
On Workers Memorial Day, unions still pleading for enforceable federal protections from deadly COVID-19
April 28, 2020 by
Making matters worse, Trump has over the last three years steadily chipped away at the number of federal OSHA investigators, now at its lowest point in the agency’s history.
Unions move quickly to keep tradespeople safe on jobsites
April 28, 2020 by
Union leaders are taking COVID-19 – and their members’ concerns about the pandemic – seriously.
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