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It’s autumn in Minnesota, and trade unionists across our great state are taking action together every day though the Labor 2022 program. We started earlier this spring with a rigorous screening process that helped determine which candidates had done the work to earn the Minnesota AFL-CIO’s endorsement. In August, we kicked-off our grassroots member education […]
It was another successful year for Project Heat’s On, the community service initiative sponsored by local pipe trades unions and their signatory contractors.
It’s imperative that we take the same momentum driving this surge in workplace organizing and use it to mobilize union members to get to the polls.
Several Twin Cities homeowners received free service through local union plumbers’ annual Water’s Off service initiative last month.
“It’s a skilled trade we were fortunate to learn, and we are fortunate to be able to give back,” longtime IBEW volunteer Bob Delesha said.
Led by the nonprofit St. Paul Labor Studies and Resource Center, local unions helped distribute 2.5 million pounds of free food through the USDA’s Farmers to Families program, which will sunset this month.
The St. Paul Regional Labor Federation and its nonprofit Labor Studies and Resource Center (LSRC) have taken a leading role in connecting Minnesotans with fresh food available through a new USDA program this winter. And on March 20 in St. Paul Park, their efforts hit a major milestone: 1 million pounds of food distributed into […]
Greg Kinne isn’t letting the knowledge he gained over nearly five decades in the automotive industry go to waste in retirement. The former Machinist is sharing what he knows with a new generation of workers at the Twin Cities School. Kinne, a longtime member of Local Lodge 737, has signed on as a volunteer at […]
Local unions are stepping up this winter to connect thousands of Minnesotans with free, fresh food available through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families Food Box program. The St. Paul Regional Labor Federation, which brings together over 100 local unions in Chisago, Dakota, Ramsey and Washington counties, is spearheading the effort, working in […]
Unions aren’t just talking about unity, either. They’re backing it up with action, working in coalition to grow participation in the election.
Union Advocate 