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Community
Labor Unions Were Crucial in Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire Victory
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Another crucial player in Sanders’ New Hampshire coalition: organized labor. One of the state’s largest unions—the over 10,000-member State Employees’ Association of New Hampshire/SEIU Local 1984—endorsed the Vermont senator last month.
TAs Win Access to Training In Deal with St. Paul Schools
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About 750 members of Teamsters Local 320 who work as teaching assistants in the St. Paul Public Schools will vote soon on a proposed two-year contract with the district. .
Organizing
Number of Striking Workers Surged in 2018 and 2019
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Strike activity surged in 2018 and 2019, marking a 35-year high for the number of workers involved in a major work stoppage over a two-year period.
Organizing
SPFE sets Strike vote, Parent Info Sessions
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The union representing over 3,600 teachers, educational assistants, licensed professionals and other staff in the St. Paul Public Schools will hold a strike-authorization vote Feb. 20, leaders announced Wednesday.
Government
Council Members Push Back Against Hospital Cuts
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Three St. Paul City Council members called on Fairview to reconsider steep cuts at the downtown hospitals and, instead, partner with the community in preserving care for St. Paul’s urban core.
Unions
AFSCME Council 5 Welcomes New Executive Director
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Julie Bleyhl has been named Executive Director of AFSCME Council 5
Environment
‘How Minnesota Corporations Pollute our Planet and Politics’
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A coalition of environmental justice groups and SEIU 26 representing workers who clean major Twin Cities office buildings released a study that criticizes major Minnesota corporations for policies blocking solutions to climate change and environmental racism.
Essay
Analysis and Review of Netflix’s ‘American Factory’
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In a system that values them only as labor, these workers retain their humanity and their complexity. It’s the only thing that sets them aside from their robot competitors, which the filmmakers invoke in the movie’s sobering final scenes.
Organizing
HealthPartners Employees Overwhelmingly Authorize 7-Day ULP Strike
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SEIU Healthcare Minnesota members at HealthPartners voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a 7-day Unfair Labor Practices (ULP) strike for 1,800 members by an overwhelming vote of 95% to 5%
Government
House Votes to Restore Worker Voice on The Job
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The U.S. House of Representatives Thursday night passed a bill to strengthen protections for workers trying to join together in a union.