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Metro Transit bosses got a good look today at the drivers, mechanics and cleaning workers who have kept Twin Cities buses and trains running during the COVID-19 pandemic, while the agency’s administrators have worked mostly from home. Transit workers staged a daylong demonstration outside the Bureau of Mediation Services in St. Paul, where their union […]
ATU Local 1005 says it has delivered over 10,000 emails to Met Council members, but union members’ concerns are falling on deaf ears.
Members of the AFGE and Veterans for Peace have demonstrated relentlessly near the Minneapolis VA hospital as the Trump administration’s attacks keep coming.
“Everyone’s together on this,” John Helkamp, the local’s financial secretary, said. “We’re essential workers. We’d like a fair contract.”
Union demands reflect the changing nature of paras’ work.
The epidemic puts a grim spotlight on access to sick leave in the U.S.
SPFE gave the district a preview today, picketing at several school sites.
Find out what St. Paul educators are fighting for – and why they’re willing to strike for it.
Another 1,200 OPEIU members may honor SEIU’s picket line.
Turns out, the district’s “best and final offer” was neither best nor final.
