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Our latest coverage on workers engaging in collective action in their workplaces and communities.
Construction Bosses Are Using Elaborate Schemes to Harm Workers
Specialty contractors and labor brokers are among the participants reducing their own labor costs by burdening workers unfairly.
University of Minnesota Unions Say University is Capitulating to Trump Admin, Rally Against Detention of International Student
On March 31, workers, students, and allies rallied together on the steps of Johnston Hall, which contains the office of the University of Minnesota President Rebecca Cunningham’s, to protest what they criticize as the University’s failure to forcefully object to ICE’s recent abduction of a graduate student, and an onslaught of University policies limiting the freedom of speech across campus.
Three Times Workers Resisted Fascism in Minnesota History
Historical examples of workers resisting the oligarchical forces of fascism and authoritarianism.
Postal Workers Rally Against Trump’s Proposed Privatization of the Postal Service
“Public sectors are the frontline, they will go after private sectors next,” said Tyler Vasseur, a postal worker with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), Branch 9.
U.S. Postal Service workers with local branches of the National Association of Letter Carriers rallied at the Minnesota State Capitol on March 23, along with hundreds of community allies, Minnesota unions, and politicians to demand a strong contract—and oppose the Trump administration’s recent threats to privatize the postal service and reduce services.
“One Job Should Be Enough”: How 9,000 Grocery Workers Are Banding Together in Minnesota
“People just want to be able to afford to live. One job should be enough to do that,” said Monica Duque, a Cub Foods worker and UFCW Local 663 member. Duque is one of around 9,000 Minnesota grocery workers whose union contracts with 14 different companies expired in early March. Coordinated negotiations with seven employers is ongoing, and UFCW 663 is doing open bargaining, issuing broad appeals to the membership to show up for sessions.
How Healthcare Workers Are Defending Their Transgender Patients from Trump’s Attacks
Healthcare workers across the United States are mobilizing to support the young transgender and gender-diverse patients they care for, as the Trump administration unleashes a flurry of executive orders, and political attacks, aimed at limiting this population’s ability to exist openly in the world.
What Medicaid Cuts Would Mean for Disabled People and Homecare Workers
Medicaid recipients worry that cuts will take the form of disqualifying them from receiving coverage or cutting down the amount of home healthcare hours they are allotted in order to live, forcing them into nursing care facilities or impacting their ability to live independently in their own homes.
“Home healthcare is crucial to my autonomy and ability to independently live a dignified life,” said Kyle Murphy, a 32-year-old disabled man living in Aurora, Ill. in an interview with Workday Magazine.
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