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Union members at the Pioneer Press today opened negotiations with the newspaper’s hedge-fund ownership intent on bargaining a contract that respects their work, protects their safety and delivers wage and benefit gains. After a brief rally outside the newspaper’s offices on Water Street, about two dozen members of the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild walked […]
Nurses bargaining a first union contract with the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation held informational picketing June 2 at the renowned addiction-treatment facility in Center City, looking to raise awareness of their safety and staffing concerns. Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association had hoped Hazelden administrators would take a collaborative approach to addressing the issues behind […]
Concessions and other hospitality workers at Target Field have voted to authorize their bargaining team to call a strike, a decision could come as early as this week, the union warned today, after the employer brought “union-busting proposals” to negotiations. The workers’ union, UNITE HERE Local 17, announced results of the vote May 4. Of members […]
“It’s really important for us that REI hears that its members don’t support the union-busting they’ve been trying to do this whole time,” Maple Grove REI worker Jacob Lish said.
Picket lines went up at 7 a.m. today outside five Twin Cities nursing homes, as about 300 union members launched a 72-hour strike for fair wages and respect. The bargaining units, represented by SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa, are in limited negotiations with the employers, under to a wage-reopener clause in their contract. But management […]
The time it takes to organize a union is typically measured in months, if not years. Not so for workers at the Alamo Drafthouse in Woodbury, who voted March 27 to join Communications Workers (CWA) Local 7250 in a process that took a mere six weeks. It was as quick an organizing drive as anyone […]
The new bargaining unit brings together about 100 workers from Twin Cities Habitat and its lending subsidiary, TCHFH Lending, Inc. Members work in construction, real estate, the Habitat ReStore, resource development and other programs and services.
Members of a bargaining unit representing nearly 900 Washington County employees voted in late February to authorize a strike, demanding a new union contract that addresses understaffing and improves their access to mental-health benefits. Local 517 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) delivered a petition with over 1,800 signatures to […]
At one nonprofit nursing home with a religious affiliation, an administrator leaned on Biblical proverbs to suggest that union organizers were wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Clerical and technical workers at the City of St. Paul locked in wage increases that will ensure most union members earn $20 per hour by 2028.
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