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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Meet the Students Trying to Organize the First Campus-Wide Undergraduate Union
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Inside the groundbreaking student organizing drive at Kenyon College.’
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Workers tap into community support, put Surly on notice: ‘We’re not done here’
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Credit Surly for this much: the union-busting craft brewer inspired one raucous Labor Day-weekend rally, drawing nearly 200 people into the streets outside its destination beer hall in Minneapolis today.
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As Nonprofits Face Uncertain Times, Some Employees Look to Unionize
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“The people who drive the nonprofit ecosystem are billion-dollar foundations,” Virden said. “And yet a lot of our co-workers are working two or three jobs, part-time jobs on weekends or after work at Hope.”
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No picnics, no parades, but Freedom Library will mark Labor Day with virtual event on organizing Amazon
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The East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul will celebrate Labor Day early and online this year, with a virtual discussion about worker organizing at the world’s largest retailer, Amazon.
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Two Days after Workers Demanded Union recognition Surly Announces Staff Layoffs
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‘Say it with me: Union busting!!”
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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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Tattersall Workers Make History With Union Vote, Raising Hopes For Industry-Wide Reform
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Collective bargaining is in the mix for workers at Tattersall Distilling in Minneapolis after they voted in favor of joining together in a union. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RKBJ78ulJw
The Twin Cities hospitality union, UNITE HERE Local 17, announced the news on social media today. Tattersall employees are the first at any craft distillery in the U.S. to form a union, UNITE HERE said, and the first distillery workers to do so in Minnesota. https://twitter.com/UNITEHERE17/status/1296536631583727616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1296536631583727616%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fadvocate.stpaulunions.org%2F2020%2F08%2F20%2Ftattersall-workers-make-history-with-union-vote-raising-hopes-for-industry-wide-reform%2F
When Local 17 filed for an organizing election in June 26, the would-be union included 27 Tattersall employees. The bargaining unit will bring together bottlers, distillers, bartenders, servers, dishwashers and hosts at the distillery and cocktail room in Northeast.
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Brooklyn Teamsters Protest UPS Harassment of Black Shop Stewards
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A hundred members of Teamsters Local 804 gathered outside a Brooklyn UPS hub July 20 to protest management’s harassment of a Black shop steward and efforts to divide the workforce along racial lines.
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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.
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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.