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Downtown St Paul

St. Paul Joins Call for Guaranteed Income for Struggling Residents

By Mike Moen (Public News Service) | September 1, 2020

Mayors from St. Paul and ten other U.S. cities want America to embrace the idea of providing direct cash payments to people struggling to get by

Government

‘Senate GOP’s move on Labor Commissioner a slap in the face to working Minnesotans’

By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez | August 13, 2020

“There will be a reckoning on this,” Walz said.

Elections
Voting & Masks

COVID Crisis Prompts Changes for MN Primary

By Mike Moen (Public News Service) | August 10, 2020

Because of the health crisis, voters now have until Thursday, Aug. 13, to ensure their ballots been delivered by mail.

Investigative
Family of Laid Off Airport Employee

How the Trump Administration Allowed Aviation Companies to Keep Relief Money That Was Supposed to Go to Workers

By Jeff Ernsthausen and Justin Elliott | July 30, 2020

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.

Government

In a New Report MIT School of Management Professor Recommends Sweeping Changes to Labor Law

By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez | July 28, 2020

Study recommends creating mechanisms to strengthen worker voice and representation

Elections
Labor & Ilhan Presser

As the District 5 Congressional Race Heats Up Unions Stand with Rep. Omar

By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez | July 28, 2020

The speakers emphasized Rep. Omar’s history of advocating for working families and unions, and her opponent’s time representing employers as a non-equity partner at the notorious union-busting law firm Jackson Lewis.

Government

A Broken Union Election System

By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez | July 23, 2020

Today, EPI released a new report providing an inside account of how employers routinely threaten, intimidate, and harass workers to stop them from exercising their right to collective bargaining.

Government
Bonding Advocacy

As GOP plays politics with infrastructure bill, tradespeople warn their jobs hang in balance

By Michael Moore (Union Advocate) | July 22, 2020

“My brothers and sisters and their families hope lawmakers come back to the table, sit down, roll their sleeves up and do whatever is required to get this bonding bill passed … so we don’t have to tell our families we lost our jobs.”

COVID-19
ER Health Care Workers

Hospitals Are Suddenly Short of Young Doctors — Because of Trump’s Visa Ban

By Dara Lind (ProPublica) | July 18, 2020

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.

Government
Air crew members in plane

Flight Attendants Tell Airlines: Don’t Even Think About Concessions

By Sara Nelson | July 14, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis hit airline workers with speed and devastation. Passenger flow through TSA checkpoints fell 97 percent in March compared to a year earlier. In the months since, travel demand has only barely recovered, to 20 percent of a year ago.

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