Apprentices from across the U.S. traveled to Minnesota for the event, hosted by Local 96 at its training center in Ham Lake.
Hospital nurses picket for safe staffing in Twin Cities, Duluth
June 4, 2025 by
Any hospital executive wondering whether members of the Minnesota Nurses Association would give up that fight got a resounding answer today, as thousands of nurses, dressed in MNA’s signature red, were back on picket lines at 17 hospitals in the Twin Cities and Duluth area.
Allina primary-care doctors picket: ‘We need a lifeline’
June 3, 2025 by
The bargaining unit of 600 doctors, physicians’ assistants and nurse practitioners took the historic step – they are the first doctors to picket in Minnesota, according to their international union – 15 months into bargaining a first contract with Allina.
Twin Cities doctors, nurses to picket June 3-4 as progress stalls on contract campaigns
May 29, 2025 by
Unionized doctors and nurses escalate their contract campaigns at Allina and other local health systems.
Mac’s new union weighs labor charge after college changes work rules
May 23, 2025 by
Newly unionized student workers at Macalester College in St. Paul marched on their boss after the school abruptly changed terms of employment covering many in the bargaining unit of 1,100.
Unions decry state lawmakers’ move to close Stillwater prison
May 23, 2025 by
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.
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