Unions at the 2019 Minnesota State Fair

Throughout the two weeks of the “Great Minnesota Get Together” unions interacted with fairgoers all over the fairgrounds.

At the UFCW 663 booth members were enjoying their interactions as they signed up for raffle prizes.

Elected leaders stopped by the Education Minnesota booth.

The Carpenter’s booth proved popular as they raffled benches made by apprentices.

SEIU State Council noted that fairgoers had workers issues on their minds.

Finally, State Auditor and former secretary-treasurer of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, Julie Blaha, summed up Labor Day at the state fair.

Filiberto Nolasco Gomez is a former union organizer and former editor of Minneapolis based Workday Minnesota, the first online labor news publication in the state. Filiberto focused on longform and investigative journalism. He has covered topics including prison labor, labor trafficking, and union fights in the Twin Cities.

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