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First, it was the undergraduates at Macalester who unionized with the United Auto Workers (UAW). Then the non-faculty staff followed suit, unionizing with the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE). So why is Macalester dragging their feet on hammering out the needed contracts? Undergraduate cafeteria workers get fed up “It started with a group of […]
About 15 million American workers are union members, but polling shows that some 50 million more would join a union today if they could. What if that happened? That’s the question researchers at the Economic Policy Institute sought to answer in a first-of-its-kind report, “The Case for Tripling Union Membership,” published in July. Tripling union […]
After a meeting with the CEO left more questions than answers, workers at two Bouldering Project gyms in the Twin Cities moved quickly to organize a union. Workers voted to 79-7 to form a bargaining unit with Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees (SEIU), in a landslide election Aug. 6 overseen by the […]
BLOOMINGTON – Video game workers rallied Aug. 18 for a fair first contract with their Microsoft-owned publishing firm, while also standing in solidarity with workers across the country fighting layoffs and corporate greed in Microsoft’s gaming studios. Members of Activision Quality Assurance United, an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), held “Save Our […]
Nurses ended their strike at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s Center City campus this week, settling a first contract that, union members say, will address concerns that sparked their historic organizing campaign. Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association’s bargaining unit – about 60 nurses in all – voted to ratify the contract today. Union negotiators […]
Nurses bargaining a first union contract with the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation launched an open-ended strike July 15 at the renowned addiction-treatment facility in Center City, and their picket line remains up after two bargaining sessions this week. Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) voted to authorize a strike nearly a year into negotiations. […]
Workers at the climbing gyms in Minneapolis and St. Paul went public with their organizing drive earlier this month.
The Twin Cities area has its fifth union bookstore, after workers at the Half Price Books in Apple Valley voted last month to organize with United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 663.
If Delaware North workers stage a strike June 22, it would be the first of its kind at any Twin Cities sports stadium, according to the union.
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 […]
