Workers are on the front lines fighting this pandemic. They are caring for us, they are delivering our goods, they are protecting us, and they are maintaining our essential services and infrastructure. Their safety must be a top priority
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WORKERS NEED STRONGER LABOR LAW PROTECTIONS
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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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It’s Time For Bold Action, and Unions are Up To The Challenge
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ese are bold actions to take, and it’s a time for bold action. We are experiencing historic inequality in our country. The Trump administration continues to level attacks against workers and their rights to form unions and negotiate fair contracts with their employers.
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Preparing for Our Next Decade: Column by MAPE Executive Director Lina Jamoul
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The last 10 years have been a combination of existential threats and unprecedented growth, setbacks and victories. It’s time to reflect together on the last decade, re-center on our values and ask ourselves: what do we do want to do next, together? This is an especially important question to ask as MAPE turns 40 this year
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Bobby Kasper: The strength of our union family is solidarity
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Our local unions give us power on the job and a voice at work. The old saying is true: If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.
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The Strike at McDonald’s Is About More Than Fighting Abuse—It’s About Workplace Democracy
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Ignited by the hideously common experience of workplace sexual harassment, the strike was a powerful display of working-class force in an industry where women and people of color make up the overwhelming majority of non-managerial workers.
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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.