Lunds & Byerly’s workers bargained a first-in-the-nation process to develop policies covering violent events in their stores.
Grocery workers workers win historic raises, landmark safety language in new contracts
Insulted by 1% wage offer, Half Price Books workers strike
‘Riding the union wave,’ Minneapolis Trader Joe’s workers win landslide election
Minneapolis is home to the nation’s second unionized Trader Joe’s store, after workers voted overwhelmingly last week in favor of joining together to bargain with the retailer for better wages and safer working conditions. About a dozen workers on hand Friday, when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) counted votes in a delivery bay behind […]
Guthrie scenic artists voting in union election this month
Half Price Books workers in Roseville, St. Paul form unions
Jennifer Christensen: ‘We really are dedicated, as a union, to everyone doing better’
Grocery workers ask you to #ShopSmart during pandemic
Bernie Hesse: ‘Don’t do something out of charity, do it out of solidarity’
He is gruff and often combative, principled and usually blunt. But above all else, Bernie Hesse is a trade unionist. From his days as a grocery clerk to his current work as director of special projects for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1189, Hesse has made himself ubiquitous in St. Paul’s labor community. If […]
Poised to strike this weekend, AT&T wireless workers seek support on picket line
Some 21,000 AT&T wireless workers in 36 states – including about 2,000 in Minnesota – plan to strike this weekend, a show of frustration over the company’s failure to negotiate a new contract that protects good, family-supporting jobs. The strike is set to begin at 2 p.m. tomorrow unless AT&T and the Communications Workers of America, which […]