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The East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul will celebrate Labor Day early and online this year, with a virtual discussion about worker organizing at the world’s largest retailer, Amazon. The event, “Labor Day Ain’t No Picnic,” will broadcast on the ESFL’s Facebook and YouTube pages Sept. 3, bringing together activists who are using research, […]
In a school year unlike any other, educators and other staff need a voice in decisions that affect their safety, unions say.
As U.S. Sen. Tina Smith met with postal workers, letter carriers and reporters outside the sprawling mail distribution center in Eagan today, a pickup truck exiting the facility slowed to a stop near the crowd. The driver lowered her window and barked out a brief message for Smith before speeding away. “Thank you, senator!” she […]
Nurses say masks could help “stave off a resurgence of the vicious COVID-19 virus that has ravaged this state.”
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.
“To workers who have contracted COVID, this is for you,” Minnesota Nurses Association President Mary Turner said.
Union leaders are taking COVID-19 – and their members’ concerns about the pandemic – seriously.
As unions pause to remember their fallen members, COVID-19 has given new urgency to their fight for worker safety.
Efforts to halt the spread of COVID-19 are creating immediate economic hardship for many working families, but help is available during the crisis.
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