Corrections officers and other Stillwater prison workers are demanding that state leaders reconsider their plan, announced as part of a bipartisan budget agreement earlier this month, to close the facility by 2029.
Chris Rubesch: We need all workers to stand with us against Essentia
May 23, 2025 by
This is about more than nurse staffing. It’s about whether working people in Minnesota still have the power to shape their jobs, their safety and their futures.
Trump guts agencies key to keeping worksites safe
May 23, 2025 by
Local unions’ Workers Memorial Day observances took on heightened urgency this year, as the Trump administration sought to hollow out federal agencies critical to protecting workers from injury, illness and death on the job. Workers Memorial Day falls on April 28, the date President Richard Nixon signed the Occupa-tional Safety and Health Act into law […]
OPEIU members decry ‘culture of fear’ at HealthPartners, set May 5 strike deadline
April 29, 2025 by
Union leaders described a trend of “more punitive discipline than legitimate corrective action” doled out to members in recent years.
Blissenbach: Aquatic plant removal bill honors memory of fallen workers
April 28, 2025 by
In response to recent worker fatalities, the Minnesota Legislature introduced a bill designed to increase protections for workers using scuba-diving equipment to perform aquatic weed and plant removal.
State workers fired up over Walz’s telework order as contract negotiations begin
April 25, 2025 by
“It wasn’t a slap in the face, it was a stab in the back.”
Local lawmakers, unions scramble to support federal workers harmed by Trump cuts
April 25, 2025 by
Unions and community allies put out the call for attorneys to volunteer their services to advocate for workers who have seen their rights violated by the Trump administration’s recklessness.
Unions show solidarity with immigrant workers amid deportation surge
April 25, 2025 by
The pushback from labor and community groups comes as Trump’s deportation plan approaches a constitutional tipping point.
IUPAT’s community outreach led to first criminal wage-theft conviction in Minnesota
April 25, 2025 by
The Painters union said the landmark case reflects the tip of the iceberg when it comes to worker abuses in the construction industry.
Union members sound off on impacts of DOGE cuts to federal workforce
April 10, 2025 by
Republicans so far have shown little interest in oversight of Musk, and they showed little interest, too, in hearing from federal workers impacted by the chaos that DOGE has sewn across federal agencies.
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