Across Industries, Minnesota Workers Are Harnessing Their Collective Power
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Minnesota workers and community groups have worked toward this moment for over a decade. It’s paying off.
Workers
Minnesota’s Labor Spring Has Arrived. Here’s What’s Going Down.
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This article is being jointly published by Workday Magazine and In These Times. MINNEAPOLIS—Minnesota’s Labor Spring has arrived. Thousands of essential workers and community members are taking part in a Week of Action in the Twin Cities to fight for a host of social demands they hope will build worker power and strengthen communities. They are calling for better union contracts and a labor standards advisory board, alongside social housing, environmental sustainability, and better schools. The alignment of unions, workers’ centers and community organizations, and the broad scope of their aims, is being heralded as a model of social movement unionism, or bargaining for the common good.
This Union Wants Meatpacking Companies to Foot the Bill for Child Labor Prevention
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Child labor law violations have been increasing in the U.S. and a Minnesota union local has an innovative solution.
Minnesota Is Headed for a Workers vs. Bosses Showdown That’s 10 Years in the Making
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Labor and community organizations who have been aligning for years are escalating their fights at the same time.
Community
“We Do the Behind-the-Scenes Work”: What it Takes to Lead a Union of Clerical Workers
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A conversation with the former president of the clerical workers union at the University of Minnesota.
Essay
Minnesota Women Labor Journalists Uplifted Working People for Decades
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Was objectivity really a historical norm? Not for these pioneering labor journalists and advocates.
News
“We Won’t Let Them Destroy Us”: Nurses at Illinois Hospital Strike Over Thanksgiving Week
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Nurses say unfair labor practices and denial of a staffing crisis are leaving workers with no choice but to strike during the holidays.
Organizing
“What Could We Win Together?” Labor in Minnesota Gears up for a Major Escalation
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With a string of contracts expiring in the new year, Minnesota unions and community groups are gathering to unite around a strategy for a cleaner environment and better jobs, housing and schools.
They Sacrificed to Survive Bankruptcy. They Worked Through A Pandemic. Now, Autoworkers Have Had Enough.
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“I want to see them return what they promised to the workers that saved the company,” says a striking Stellantis worker in Minnesota.
“We Can’t Eat Prestige”: Inside the Unionization of the Science Museum of Minnesota
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The NLRB recently reinstated six workers at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Workers say the museum is still breaking labor law and failing to bargain in good faith.