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Local union volunteers are welcoming the nation’s labor movement to Minneapolis this week and helping the AFL-CIO ensure its biggest event runs smoothly. About 40 retired and active union members answered the call for volunteers during the AFL-CIO’s 30th Constitutional Convention, which began yesterday and runs through June 10 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Volunteers are stationed throughout a bustling exhibition space, located just off the meeting floor. The […]
On Day 1 of the convention, delegates gave a standing ovation to local unions for their role in fighting back against Operation Metro Surge last winter.
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 […]
“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.
Two new academic reports have raised concerns among some lawmakers that public funds are being used to stifle worker voice.
Education Minnesota reports that high insurance costs are a leading factor in driving licensed educators away from the profession. Lower-paid school employees, meanwhile, often forego the district’s insurance and look to public programs for coverage.
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.
Workers across the health care industry began sounding the alarm that immigrant patients were avoiding hospitals and clinics, deferring needed care and going without their medications.
From health care workers and letter carriers to transit workers and educators, the message has been clear: keep ICE out of our workplaces.
Unions pushed state lawmakers to address the mental-health crisis in their industry, pointing to suicide rates among construction workers that are four times higher than the national average.
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