The new contracts include 10% raises over the next three years, new tools to address workplace violence and requirements that hospitals provide coverage for nurses when they go on breaks.
Tradeswomen honored at local ceremony as Trump halts efforts to diversify industry
July 23, 2025 by
Union tradespeople from across Minnesota gathered at a White Bear Lake banquet facility June 5 to celebrate winners of the 2025 Women Building Success Awards, which recognize women forging careers in an industry long dominated by men. Minnesota Building Trades unions founded Women Building Success (WBS) in 2017 to recognize and promote the achievements of […]
Member support, stories turned tide for state workers in tough round of talks
July 22, 2025 by
Union negotiators cited two factors as key to securing a contract they could recommend: a visible, vocal pool of support from rank-and-file members and unshakable solidarity between AFSCME Council 5 and MAPE.
GOP’s Medicaid cuts would raise costs for everyone, union report finds
June 18, 2025 by
Health care workers joined community and faith leaders today on the Capitol steps in St. Paul to demand Republicans in Congress walk back historic cuts to Medicaid included in their budget bill, which President Trump wants on his desk by July 4. Meanwhile, a new analysis from the AFL-CIO warns those cuts will make health care less […]
Local 96 apprentices shine at Roofers’ nationwide skills competition
June 5, 2025 by
Apprentices from across the U.S. traveled to Minnesota for the event, hosted by Local 96 at its training center in Ham Lake.
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.
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 […]
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.
Union plumbers provide free repairs on Water’s Off day of service
April 10, 2025 by
Sponsored by St. Paul Plumbers Local 34 and Minneapolis Local 15, the event provides free service calls to low-income, senior and disabled homeowners in the Twin Cities.
Contractor who stiffed Bricklayers loses license, must pay $70,000
March 12, 2025 by
A local masonry contractor pled guilty last month to felony tax fraud after a joint investigation by the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office and the Minnesota Department of Revenue.
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