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Workers at two prominent Minnesota nonprofit organizations, The Advocates for Human Rights and Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid, have moved to unionize this winter. About 110 staff members at Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid (MMLA) are participating in a union election after an overwhelming majority of workers signed a petition to join together and bargain collectively as members of […]
Airport workers are dialing up the pressure on employers at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport and the airport’s governing body to do something to make their health insurance more affordable. Health benefits have been a sticking point in separate negotiations covering two groups of workers at MSP Airport, about 450 airline catering workers represented by […]
Planned Parenthood North Central States workers in Minnesota and four other states voted to ratify their first union contract this week, capping a tumultuous round of negotiations with the reproductive health organization, where workers voted to unionize in July 2022. The new contract takes effect retroactively to Jan. 1 and covers about 430 members of […]
Nearly five years into their campaign for a new union contract, flight attendants at Minnesota-based Sun Country Airlines are still fighting for their fair share of the company’s growing profits. Members of Teamsters Local 120, which represents about 600 flight attendants at Sun Country, held informational picketing Jan. 10 outside Terminal 2 at Minneapolis-St. Paul […]
Health care workers don’t want to see pandemic-level staffing become the new normal.
GRSU is a “wall-to-wall” union, meaning teachers are in the same bargaining unit as support staff – a bargaining dynamic that’s unique in public education.
“Our message to Metro Transit is let’s get back to the table and really start negotiating.”
“They’ve never seen an employer make a proposal to undo so many substantial pieces of progress already won through the bargaining process,” health educator Elizabeth Wolfe said.
They would be the nation’s largest private-sector union of clinicians.
“We want – and we’re going to get – what we’ve got coming to us,” said Teamsters Local 120 President Tom Erickson.
Union Advocate 