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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 […]
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.
The Sept. 30 rally is sponsored by the SAG-AFTRA Twin Cities Local, which is keeping a close eye on contract negotiations in anticipation of Minnesota luring more film production work with a newly expanded tax credit.
“We want – and we’re going to get – what we’ve got coming to us,” said Teamsters Local 120 President Tom Erickson.
“They don’t want to play ball,” Local 13 Business Manager Wendell Bell said.
Planned Parenthood workers this week pledged to continue fighting back against an intimidation campaign targeting elected union leaders at the reproductive health organization’s North Central States chapter. Meanwhile, the Service Employees (SEIU) union announced it had rescinded its endorsement of the Minnesota legislator who serves as the nonprofit’s CEO. Over 440 employees of Planned Parenthood […]
A bill to address hospital staffing shortfalls, however, fell short of the union nurses’ expectations.
“It’s been a year and we still haven’t had any bargaining sessions that Starbucks has shown up to.”
The employer tactic has come under scrutiny in recent years, as union membership has remained flat despite polling that shows interest in forming unions at a near-record high.
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