The labor movement is split on the question of cops. While union officials have signaled their tempered support for police unions, the push to expel law enforcement from the movement has grown quickly in the rank-and-file.
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Former Employees Challenge Angel Food Bakeries Commitment to #BLM
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The recent sympathy towards #BLM is a reflection of corporate opportunism.
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Tattersall Workers are Trying to Form a Union
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Earlier today Tattersall workers made public their intention to form a union.
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Reflections from the Powderhorn Park Encampment
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The exploitation of poor and working-class people is also coming at the hands of people who believe they’re doing good.
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It’s Time to Make Black Lives Matter in Our Unions
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The Movement for Black Lives is encouraging union members to plan “Labor for Black Lives” actions in their communities on Friday, June 19—Juneteenth.
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Union President Says Minneapolis Is Trying to Punish Transit Workers Who Wouldn’t Help the Police
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In These Times spoke with Ryan Timlin, the president of ATU Local 1005, about the impact of the union’s actions on the lives of its members, and on the political climate.
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Minnesota Labor Can Lead The Nation as we Reimagine Public Safety Together
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‘To me, addressing the harm of policing is certainly a labor issue and we should be fighting for a labor movement free from jobs that harm and dehumanize us as workers as well as those with whom we interact. We have that opportunity in Minnesota right now.’
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West Coast Dockers Stop Work to Honor George Floyd
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At 9 a.m. on Tuesday, ports across the U.S. West Coast ground to a halt as longshore workers stopped work to mourn the death of George Floyd.
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Posthumous Pardon Considered in MN Case that Fueled Racial Tension
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The state Board of Pardons, which includes Gov. Tim Walz, could vote as early as today on a posthumous pardon for Max Mason, a black man convicted of raping a white woman in Duluth in 1920.
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Minneapolis is a Canvas
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While Barlow is primarily a studio based oil painter she shifted to murals. “I don’t typically do murals, but I felt called to do this work because it’s quicker, it’s reactive. And you can involve community so you can involve non-painters in the work. “
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Postal Workers from Burned S. Minneapolis Station Rally in Solidarity with #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
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The press conference was followed by solidarity march to 38th and Chicago (site of George Floyd’s murder)