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Across Industries, Minnesota Workers Are Harnessing Their Collective Power 2024-03-21 [Workday]

State response to misclassification is ‘uncoordinated and inadequate’ 2024-03-17 [MN Reformer]

Thousands of janitors begin three-day strike across Twin Cities, MSP Airport 2024-03-05 [CBS]

Unions plan to wage simultaneous strikes 2024-03-05 [CNN]

The Most Important Labor Story Right Now Is in Minnesota—It Might Be the Model We All Need 2024-03-03 [Workday]

Grocery Workers Make Waves in the Land of Lakes 2024-01-23 [Labour Notes]

Downtown Minneapolis janitors bargain for better wages, threaten to strike 2024-01-05 [The Journal]

First Avenue Workers’ Victory: Another Win for Union and Worker Center Collaborations 2024-01-03 [ExposedByCMD]

fire fighters and emergency medical professionals embark on transformative training mission in Africa 2023-12-31 [IAFF]

“We Can’t Eat Prestige”: Inside the Unionization of the Science Museum of Minnesota 2023-09-27 [Workday]

Unions work to connect construction workers with mental health care 2023-09-20 [NPR]

Meatpacking union workers reject contract offer from Hormel 2023-09-18 [The Post]

USW workers ratify labor deal with Cleveland-Cliffs for Minnesota mine 2023-09-09 [Crain's Cleveland Business]

DOC ignores workers’ pleas for increased safety measures, prison takeover ensues 2023-09-04 [MAPE]

Cleveland-Cliffs, USW union reach tentative labor agreement for Minnesota mines 2023-08-31 [Reuters]

Uber and Lyft Drivers Challenge the Goliath in Minnesota 2023-08-31 [More Perfect Union]

Women Industrial Workers in the Twin Cities, 1860s–1945 2023-08-03 [MNOpedia]

Starbucks workers kick off summer-long union bus tour in MN 2023-07-11 [CBS]

Starbucks union workers begin bus tour in St. Paul 2023-07-11 [KSTP]

Major labor union rescinds endorsement of lawmaker over alleged union busting 2023-07-07 [The Reformer]

Lunds & Byerlys workers make deal with company after strike threat 2023-07-02 [Twin Cities Pioneer Press]

UFCW Local 663 Essential Grocery Store Workers Vote Overwhelmingly to Authorize ULP Strike at Lunds & Byerlys’ Stores 2023-06-24 [UFCW]

MN is transforming its nursing home industry with a model that empowers workers 2023-06-16 [MN Reformer]

‘The best state for workers’: what are Minnesota’s new labor laws? 2023-06-07 [The Guardian]

The future of worker power can be found in MN 2023-06-05 [Fast Co.]

Amazon campaign activists win new law in Minnesota to make warehouses safer 2023-05-26 [UNI Global Union]

Workday Magazine is Relaunching to Better Tell Pro-Labor Stories 2023-05-25 [Racket]

Changing UAW’s Culture & The 1990 CIA AFL-CIO Attack On Mexico City Ford Workers With Rob McKenzie For more info 2023-05-04 [LVP]

Postal Service workers to protest in Twin Cities as a part of nationwide union effort 2023-04-29 [KARE]

St. Paul Starbucks workers’ strike, walk off job Thursday 2023-04-28 [KMSP]

Workers At 33 Cub Foods Stores Will Strike Before Easter 2023-04-06 [Patch]

AT&T moving hundreds of jobs out of downtown Minneapolis 2023-04-05 [Axios]

Non-compete agreement leaves workers homeless and jobless 2023-02-06 [Labor Notes]

Minnesota House Backs Extended Jobless Pay for Mine Workers 2023-01-25 [Lakeland PBS]

Amazon workers rally outside Shakopee warehouse for better pay, safer work 2022-12-09 [MN Reformer]

Shipt sued by DC, Minnesota attorneys general over worker classification 2022-10-29 [Grocery Dive]

Minnesota attorney general accuses Target-owned Shipt of cheating workers 2022-10-28 [Star Tribune]

Workers from various jobs march to demand 'unions for all' 2022-10-15 [KARE]

Mental Health workers plan to strike 2022-09-29 [KSTP]

15,000 nurses determined to win a fair contract to put patients before profits after historic strike 2022-09-15 [Minnesota Nurses Association]

Employers seeing ‘renewed interest’ in labor unions this year 2022-09-16 [Fox]

Breaking: Hospital executives launch desperate attack on collective rights of nurses fighting for better patient care and working conditions 2022-09-01 [Minnesota Nurses Asociation]

Twin Ports nurses to gather withcommunity supporters ahead of strike 2022-09-09 [Minnesota Nurses Association]

15,000 Minnesota Nurses Wage Largest Private Sector Nurses’ Strike in US History 2022-09-13 [Truthout]

15,000 nurses in Minnesota go on strike over critically low staffing levels and overwork; Minnesota Nurses Association-NNU says strike will last three days 2022-09-12 [Washington Post]

15,000 Minnesota nurses to strike for three days starting September 15th 2022-09-04 [CBS]

Trader Joe's Union Campaign Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back 2022-08-28 [Labour Notes]

Trader Joe's Union Campaign Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back 2022-08-27 [Labor Notes]

Workers organize at a second Trader Joe's, this one in Minneapolis 2022-08-14 [New York Times]

Recently Unionized Minneapolis Starbucks Workers Conduct Two-day Strike 2022-08-14 [Unicorn Riot ]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

6-03-1913 Joe Hill's song "There is Power in a Union" first appeared in the @_IWW union's Little Red Song Book. [more]

7-03-1932 Unemployed workers stage a hunger march to the Ford complex at Dearborn, demanding workers be rehired. Police shoot at the demonstration, killing 4 and injuring 60 [more]

7-03-1860 Some 6,000 shoemakers, later joined by 20,000 other workers, are on strike in Lynn, Massachussets. They get wage increases but not recognition for their union. [more]

7-03-1920 “Hunger march” by the unemployed to the Ford factories in Dearborn, asking for help and hiring. Police shoot at crowd, killing 4 and injuring 60 people. [more]

8-03-1942 Lucy Parsons, founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and powerful orator for women, working people, and political prisoners died. [more]

8-03-1926 Fur & Leather Workers Union (mostly women) went on strike in NYC, enduring beatings by police. They won a 10% raise and a five-day week. [more]

9-03-1910 Westmoreland County Coal strikes begins, ending in 1911. It is known as the 'Slovak strike', as 70% of the miners are Slovakian. 16 people are killed. [more]

11-03-1950 TWU members at American Airlines win 11-day national strike, gaining what the union says was the first severance pay clause in industry. [more]

12-03-1929 Lupe Anguiano, women's rights activist and labour organizer, is born. [more]

12-03-1912 The Bread and Roses strikers won all their demands. The strike was organized by mostly women workers and the Industrial Workers of the World and included 20,000 workers. [more]

13-03-1830 The term “rat,” referring to a worker who betrays fellow workers, first appears in print in the New York Daily Sentinel [more]

15-03-1917 The Supreme Court approves the 8-hour day law as rail workers threaten national strike. [more]

15-03-1948 National strike by bituminous coal miners demanding pensions. [more]

16-03-1960 The United Teachers' Federation is formed in New York to represent public school teachers and later all education workers in the metropolis. [more]

18-03-1937 New York City police arrested striking Woolworth's store clerks - mostly women - who had occupied stores demanding a 40-hour workweek. [more]

31-03-1927 Cesar Chavez, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]