St. Paul unions are teaming up with labor and community groups this fall on a campaign to advance administrative citations from the general election ballot to the capital city’s charter.
Unions join coalition pushing ‘yes’ vote on administrative citations in St. Paul
September 24, 2025 by
Carpenters union’s tip leads to felony wage-theft charges
September 22, 2025 by
Ramsey County Attorney John Choi and law-enforcement leaders credited the local Carpenters union with playing a key role in their investigation of wage-theft allegations on a public housing site in St. Paul, which resulted in criminal charges filed Sept. 3. Choi’s office charged Jose Herrera, Carrie Gutbrod-Herrera and Joseph Herrera, owners of Bayvista Incorporated, with […]
St. Paul school levy gets labor endorsement
September 18, 2025 by
The campaign will hold a kickoff rally Saturday, Sept. 20 – the day after early voting begins. Organizers also invite volunteers to join regular door knocks and phone banks.
Stagehands say conditions improved after Yacht Club picket
August 21, 2025 by
Stagehands who worked the Minnesota Yacht Club festival in St. Paul last month got a bump in pay after union members set up a picket line outside the three-day event, IATSE Local 13 says. “The picket worked, and I’m very proud that we put it up,” Local 13 business agent Kellie Larson said. “The goal […]
Historical Society’s plan to close sites, lay off staff needs scrutiny, union says
August 15, 2025 by
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, […]
St. Paul educators reach tentative deal, shift focus to levy campaign
August 14, 2025 by
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 […]
Labor fed backs St. Paul’s administrative citations referendum, no endorsement in Ward 4
July 24, 2025 by
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.
Unions brace for impact of Medicaid cuts, vow accountability
July 22, 2025 by
“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.
GOP’s Medicaid cuts would raise costs for everyone, union report finds
June 18, 2025 by
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 […]
Hospital nurses picket for safe staffing in Twin Cities, Duluth
June 4, 2025 by
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.
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