No one should doubt St. Paul educators’ commitment to our students.
Nick Faber: Strike, contract campaign led to real gains for St. Paul schools
April 1, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Labor backs Smith in Senate re-election bid
March 31, 2020 by Leave a Comment
She has emerged as a leading advocate in the Senate for pension reform and worker protections, two top priorities for organized labor.
With N-95 collection drive, nurses gear up for challenge ahead
March 25, 2020 by Leave a Comment
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Minnesota grows higher, prompting the state’s health care system to brace for a wave of hospitalizations, registered nurses are holding a collection drive at their union headquarters in St. Paul to stock up on personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies. The public’s support in just the […]
Senators push back against Trump’s union-busting
March 11, 2020 by 1 Comment
In his administration’s latest swipe at federal unions, President Trump last month gave Defense Secretary Mark Esper unprecedented authority to strip collective bargaining rights from nearly 750,000 civilian workers at the agency. Democratic senators, including Minnesota’s Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, urged Esper in a letter last week “to exercise great restraint” with his new […]
Building a clean economy ‘on the high road’
March 5, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Strengthening union rights would be a win for the planet, too, BlueGreen Alliance director Jason Walsh says.
After 37 years of syndicated solidarity, cartoonists draw service to a close
March 3, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki have been supplying art to labor publications from coast to coast since 1983.
Kera Peterson: It’s time for bold action, and unions are up to the challenge
January 30, 2020 by
We get things done by showing up in solidarity, supporting each other and inviting allies to join us in our work.
Unions on USMCA: ‘Working people made it better’
January 28, 2020 by
Pushed by workers, Democrats added more enforceable labor standards.
Bobby Kasper: The strength of our union family is solidarity
December 19, 2019 by
It’s the time of year when families gather together to celebrate the holidays. Those gatherings take many different forms. Sometimes we gather as a nuclear family, just parents and their children. Other times we gather with our extended family, bringing together the grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins or in-laws. The ties that bind us together as […]
Kasper to retire, Peterson elected to lead St. Paul labor federation
December 12, 2019 by
The St. Paul Regional Labor Federation will have new leadership in the coming new year. After a decade in office, RLF President Bobby Kasper will retire at the end of December, a decision he made official at the federation’s delegate meeting Dec. 11. Kasper, a “proud” member of LIUNA Laborers Local 563, has served as […]
