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The St. Paul Federation of Educators last week reached a tentative agreement on new union contracts covering about 4,000 teachers, education assistants and school professionals working in the state’s second-largest school district. If union members and the Board of Education vote to ratify the two-year contracts, they could take effect before the district’s first day […]
For many non-faculty workers at Macalester, their jobs suddenly felt a lot less secure after President Trump’s victory.
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.
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.
The bargaining unit of 80 workers is escalating their campaign for a new contract that delivers wage gains and longevity bonuses.
Any hospital executive wondering whether members of the Minnesota Nurses Association would give up that fight got a resounding answer today, as thousands of nurses, dressed in MNA’s signature red, were back on picket lines at 17 hospitals in the Twin Cities and Duluth area.
Newly unionized student workers at Macalester College in St. Paul marched on their boss after the school abruptly changed terms of employment covering many in the bargaining unit of 1,100.
“It wasn’t a slap in the face, it was a stab in the back.”
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.
The pushback from labor and community groups comes as Trump’s deportation plan approaches a constitutional tipping point.
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