Minnesota’s working families can’t wait. We can’t wait for impeachment hearings, elections or trickle-down economics. We need real solutions now.
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Teachers Fighting for Public Schools Were Key to the Uprising in Puerto Rico
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In the two months leading up to the uprising which ousted Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Roselló, educators celebrated hard-fought victories against the privatization of their education system. Struggles by teachers and families against school closures and charter schools helped pave the way for July’s unprecedented outpouring of protest.
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Letter from The Feminist Strip Club
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The possibility of regulatory change influenced our discussions, and many of the articles in this issue focus on labor conditions and the proposed ordinance changes. Among them, we’re thrilled to include an inside view from a dancer that worked with the City on crafting the proposed changes.
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A Stripper vs. the World
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The word “stripper” does not define me. The work I do does not determine whether or not I will be treated as someone’s daughter, or sister, or mother. I am these things regardless of what I do, and that can never be forgotten.
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Proposed Ordinance Could Go Further
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As a progressive city, Minneapolis needs to spearhead better standards for all workers. We can easily achieve this in at least one field by 2020 with the proposed changes to the Adult Entertainment ordinance.
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Sex Workers and The City
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We are the Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP), and we are a non-hierarchal, consensus-based, autonomous chapter of a national organization that advocates for the human rights of people in the sex trades. We view ourselves as part of the broader coalition of prison abolition and anti-state violence work.
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(Op-ED) Keith Ellison: Time to Address Wage Theft is Now
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HF 6, authored by Rep. Tim Mahoney, a union pipefitter, and SF 1933, authored by Sen. Bobby Joe Champion – that will give us more tools and resources to charge people with the crime of wage theft and prosecute it more aggressively.
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Op-Ed: ‘The Fight for $15 Was Never Just About Raising Wages’
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Right now, the labor movement has huge opportunities around Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and more. Working successfully with young people like me will be key not only to the success or failure of these campaigns, but the success or failure of the labor movement itself.
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COMMENTARY: How the Labor Movement Can Thrive After Janus
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The Supreme Court and the entire U.S. legal system have rarely been on the side of the U.S. working class, yet workers have continuously organized without the support of the law
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A Teacher’s Perspective: It’s Time to Stand Up for Public Schools
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This March, a confluence of union action and national events has brought a welcome focus to the challenges our public schools face. As a teacher, I can attest to the seriousness of problems like inadequate funding, union-busting and gun violence, but I am heartened by the activism that is starting to spring up around the country.
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Events to commemorate 80th anniversary of 1934 strike
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Events planned for four days July 17-20 will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Minneapolis Teamsters strikes of 1934. considered the most significant single labor event in Minnesota history.