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As U.S. Sen. Tina Smith met with postal workers, letter carriers and reporters outside the sprawling mail distribution center in Eagan today, a pickup truck exiting the facility slowed to a stop near the crowd. The driver lowered her window and barked out a brief message for Smith before speeding away. “Thank you, senator!” she […]
This is a moment that demands clear action and common purpose. While the times may be “uncertain,” you can be sure which side the labor movement is on.
She has emerged as a leading advocate in the Senate for pension reform and worker protections, two top priorities for organized labor.
In his administration’s latest swipe at federal unions, President Trump last month gave Defense Secretary Mark Esper unprecedented authority to strip collective bargaining rights from nearly 750,000 civilian workers at the agency. Democratic senators, including Minnesota’s Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, urged Esper in a letter last week “to exercise great restraint” with his new […]
Tina Smith isn’t on the ballot this November, but for Minnesota’s junior U.S. senator, the reprieve from campaigning will be brief. The seat Smith won in 2018 goes back on the ballot in November 2020, and the race already has attracted a well-funded opponent in former 2nd District Rep. Jason Lewis. For working families, the […]
After two weeks on the picket line outside General Motors’ Hudson, Wis., facility, members of United Auto Workers Local 722 are still standing together as their international union seeks a fair deal in nationwide contract talks with the automaker. A big reason why workers have been able to hold the line, Local 722 President Jennifer […]
The senator met with impacted federal workers at the airport today and called on Republicans to put people before the president’s political stunts.
Congressional races in Minnesota could be pivotal in determining control of Congress for the next two years.
Union solidarity is taking the wind out of Trump’s push to privatize the USPS.
Local supporters will rally over the noon hour Oct. 8, outside the downtown Minneapolis Post Office.
