Educators are feeling stressed, anxious and overwhelmed. Applications for retirement benefits, meanwhile, are on the rise.
Walz signs historic infrastructure bill from Ironworkers’ training floor
October 21, 2020 by
The bill also provides a long-sought emergency rate increase for the state’s home care workers and keeps open two correctional facilities.
Victory at MSP, as workers win $15 after long campaign
October 19, 2020 by
The working people who keep Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport running, who keep it clean and who have made it safe for travelers during the COVID-19 crisis are about to get a well-deserved raise. Members of the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) voted unanimously today to put the airport on track to a $15 minimum wage. The […]
A ‘prime opportunity’ for workers, communities to take on Amazon
October 1, 2020 by
A century ago, farmer, labor and community activists used an octopus to depict capitalist greed grasping for control over social, economic and political life. Today, it is hard to imagine a more appropriate metaphor for Amazon.
No picnics, no parades, but Freedom Library will mark Labor Day with virtual event on organizing Amazon
September 2, 2020 by
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, […]
As new school year draws near, unions push districts for answers
August 24, 2020 by
In a school year unlike any other, educators and other staff need a voice in decisions that affect their safety, unions say.
In meeting with Smith, postal employees pledge to ‘go the extra mile’ to ensure mail-in ballots count
August 18, 2020 by
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 […]
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.
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.
Union Advocate 