The economically devastated union is knocking on more doors than the entire Democratic Party
Investigative
Temp Workers Fight Back Against Alleged Sexual Harassment and Say They Face Retaliation for Doing So
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The Illinois attorney general announced that he reached a settlement with the company that calls for an independent monitor to protect the workers.
Community
Hands on Learning at Trades Boot Camp
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A dozen students from the Mankato area got the chance to sample nine different building trades at the first South Central Construction Trades Boot Camp held at Mankato West High School.
COVID-19
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.
Workers
The Return of the Construction Industry Has Brought a Surge of Immigrant Worker Deaths
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The rush to keep building through the pandemic has compounded the risks for construction workers.
Government
‘Senate GOP’s move on Labor Commissioner a slap in the face to working Minnesotans’
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“There will be a reckoning on this,” Walz said.
Race
Black women workers are essential during the crisis and for the recovery but still are greatly underpaid
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Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, August 13, is a day to call attention to the fact that Black women deserve equal pay but are still severely underpaid
Investigative
While Covid-19 Upends Supply Chains, Farms That Sell Locally Thrive
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“That is the gift of the local system, that it’s so much more resilient than the big industrial system,” said Margot McMillen, a small-scale organic vegetable and beef farmer in Missouri.
Commentary
If “Cancel Culture” Is About Getting Fired, Let’s Cancel At-Will Employment
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You know what should be canceled? The legal right of most bosses to fire you for a “good cause, bad cause, or no cause.”
COVID-19
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.
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.