Hospitality workers at MSP make gains after holiday strike threat

Travelers passing through Minneapolis-St. Paul International this holiday season can congratulate the airport’s food service-workers on a new union contract.

Twin Cities doctors, nurses to picket June 3-4 as progress stalls on contract campaigns

Unionized doctors and nurses escalate their contract campaigns at Allina and other local health systems.

OPEIU members warn HealthPartners they’re ‘not going back’ on health benefits

Local 12 members blasted the organization’s executives for pleading poverty at the bargaining table while their CEO earns $1,500 per hour – more than many members earn in a pay period.

AFSCME members to Ramsey County: ‘Residents First = Workers First’

Four local unions representing over 2,000 Ramsey County employees are holding firm to their key demands as bargaining with the county inches closer to their contracts’ Dec. 31 expiration date.

Allina doctors mark one year since union vote with call for progress in talks

Unionized doctors in the Allina Health system are frustrated with the slow pace of contract negotiations and management’s failure to address concerns about ongoing lab-processing delays.

OPEIU members say Wilson-McShane is shortchanging them in talks

Union member lifting picket sign during rally.

The Wilson-McShane Corporation serves unions in Minnesota and across the Midwest as a third-party benefit administrator, but workers at the company say management is trying to shortchange their union in a surprisingly combative round of contract negotiations. Members of Office and Professional Employees (OPEIU) Local 12 set up informational picket lines outside Wilson-McShane’s offices in […]

Bargaining moves at slowest pace in two decades as Minnesota educators get bold

Educators Lakeville, Burnsville and across Minnesota are being bold in their contract demands this bargaining cycle, sticking together for compensation gains that, union members say, are overdue after years of underfunding.

After ‘unprecedented’ disrespect from Planned Parenthood, union plans to escalate contract campaign

“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.

SEIU pulls MN lawmaker’s endorsement over union busting at Planned Parenthood

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 […]

AFSCME members to rally Saturday at MN History Center

Union members say MNHS has offered “pretty much the bare minimum” since they began bargaining a first contract in June 2022. “It’s pretty disappointing.”