
“We feed their kids,” school cook Julie Clark said. “They should do more to help us feed ours.”
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The district has shown little interest, workers said, in addressing their concerns about wages, workloads and turnover.
After voting 97-1 to authorize a strike last week, laundry workers at Aramark’s northeast Minneapolis facility today accepted an improved offer from their employer, roughly doubling the wage increase included in the contract.
Half the staffing has meant double the work for employees since the chain of booksellers reopened post-pandemic, but workers are pushing back.
“The hotels are making record profits. If we don’t ask them to give us a little part of the pie, they won’t.”
Workforce and demographic trends amount to a crisis, home care workers and clients warn, and addressing it starts with raising wages.
In St. Paul, we can cross our fingers and wait for corporate tax cuts to trickle down, or we can pass a $15 minimum wage that ensures no one working in our city lives in poverty.
Workers have unveiled plans to strike, rally and march May 1 for better wages, safe working conditions and respect on the job. At a press conference last week outside a Minneapolis Home Depot, local organizers said International Workers’ Day takes on added urgency this year, given the “current political climate and mass mobilization of communities […]