The economically devastated union is knocking on more doors than the entire Democratic Party
COVID-19
As New School Year Draws Near, Unions Push Districts For Answers
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“The communication that is received by staff and families is vague at best and non-existent at worst,” said Karin Hogan, an educator in the White Bear Lake Area Schools, where union members rallied before the school board tonight
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Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19
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In documents dating to 2006, government officials predicted that a pandemic would threaten critical businesses and warned them to prepare. Meatpacking companies largely ignored them, and now nearly every one of the predictions has come true.
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In meeting with Smith, Postal Employees Pledge to ‘go the extra mile’ to Ensure Mail-in Ballots Count
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“I have been hearing from many, many of my constituents about mail that is late, that is unreliable,” Smith said after an inspection of changes at the Eagan facility. “And that’s not the fault of the people who work so hard inside that building. That is the fault of the chaotic approach and rapid-fire change we’ve been seeing at the federal level.”
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Nobody Accurately Tracks Health Care Workers Lost to COVID-19. So She Stays Up At Night Cataloging the Dead
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Anesthesiologist Claire Rezba started tracking lost health workers almost instinctively. Researchers and industry professionals say the lack of good official data on these deaths is “scandalous” and is putting lives in danger.
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HealthPartners Workers Picket, Warn Clinic Closings Will Hurt Local Communities At Worst Possible Time
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By moving forward with plans to close nine facilities in Minnesota and eastern Wisconsin, HealthPartners is turning its back on local communities at the worst possible time, clinic workers say.
Investigative
How the Trump Administration Allowed Aviation Companies to Keep Relief Money That Was Supposed to Go to Workers
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One of the most generous programs of the bailout was meant to help airline industry companies keep their workers on the payroll. Some laid workers off first and then got the money anyway.
COVID-19
California Hospital Workers Strike, Fracturing Pandemic’s Uneasy Labor Peace
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More than 700 employees of Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, a regional trauma center in California’s Sonoma County, held a five-day strike that concluded on Friday.
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Teachers Unions Look Like the Last Line of Defense in Trump’s “Reckless” School Reopening Crusade
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“If Donald Trump and Betsy Devos actually listened to what we were saying—we were trying to reopen schools so we could meet the needs of kids,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten. “Instead, they decide to be all reckless.”
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Hospitals Are Suddenly Short of Young Doctors — Because of Trump’s Visa Ban
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Doctors treating coronavirus patients were supposed to be allowed into the U.S. But hundreds of young doctors have their visas put on hold indefinitely.
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Excluded from unemployment benefits, hourly school workers speak out: ‘It is insulting’
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For decades, hourly school employees in Minnesota have been fighting to change a state law that restricts their access to unemployment insurance benefits, but to no avail.