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Union members are demanding answers from Minnesota Historical Society executives after a shakeup that will result in 36 layoffs and reduced access to sites and materials maintained by the organization. “We want to see the receipts,” AFSCME Local 3173 President Jacob Rorem said. The layoffs, announced July 28, impacted 28 members of the bargaining unit, […]
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 […]
Council members voted unanimously to adopt the charter amendment in January, but opponents of the change collected the signatures necessary to put the question before voters. The referendum will appear on the Nov. 4 ballot.
“Without Medicaid, I would not be able to survive,” said Ace Taylor, a home care worker whose job caring for her disabled aunt is funded through Medicaid.
Health care workers joined community and faith leaders today on the Capitol steps in St. Paul to demand Republicans in Congress walk back historic cuts to Medicaid included in their budget bill, which President Trump wants on his desk by July 4. Meanwhile, a new analysis from the AFL-CIO warns those cuts will make health care less […]
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.
Corrections officers and other Stillwater prison workers are demanding that state leaders reconsider their plan, announced as part of a bipartisan budget agreement earlier this month, to close the facility by 2029.
“It wasn’t a slap in the face, it was a stab in the back.”
The Painters union said the landmark case reflects the tip of the iceberg when it comes to worker abuses in the construction industry.
Republicans so far have shown little interest in oversight of Musk, and they showed little interest, too, in hearing from federal workers impacted by the chaos that DOGE has sewn across federal agencies.
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