Workday Minnesota (https://workdayminnesota.org/author/amie/)
The Twin Cities’ Guthrie Theater is producing a run of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the lost dreams of workers in one of the poorest towns in the US.
The last two years have been some of the most difficult and transformative in the Labor Education Service’s 71-year existence.
People hear of good wages in the construction industry, but the reality can be different for those who have nonunion jobs or work for corrupt contractors.
Workers at Blaze Pizza celebrate their wage theft settlement and worker power after learning their rights and activating a system to enforce those rights.
Workers at three local Starbucks stores have announced efforts to organize unions and file for elections.
Food service workers from Minneapolis Public Schools, who’ve been waiting on a contract for a year and a half, have become the fourth union in the Twin Cities to authorize a strike in recent events.
After missing their September 6 deadline for recommendations, the working group could not agree on a single proposal for the legislature.
DFL members of the working group and frontline workers call for all frontline workers in Minnesota to be respected and acknowledged with the bonus pay proposal, even though it will be smaller payments.
Workers respond in solidarity and dismay to the announcement of a hero pay proposal seeking to give $1200 to only long-term healthcare workers
The struggle to win back stolen wages is just the tip of the iceberg for these workers.