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Fight ICE. Build the Union. Read our latest.
07/08/2025

Fight ICE. Build the Union.

Read our latest.

It was the morning of June 9, and Genie Kastrup, president of Service Employees Local 1, stood in front of Chicago’s Daley Plaza and bellowed into a microphone. “What is happening right now is about silencing voices,” she said, flanked by members of her union holding signs that read “Free Da...

Hundreds of Minnesota Healthcare Workers Are Getting Ready to Strike
07/07/2025

Hundreds of Minnesota Healthcare Workers Are Getting Ready to Strike

On July 8 and 10, hundreds of healthcare workers in Minnesota could go out on strike. They are nurses and physician assistants who are members of the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) who are upset about what they say is unsafe staffing, as well as unfair management behavior at the bargaining table...

As the Minnesota Nurses Association negotiates a new contract, safe staffing levels are the top concern for members.
06/13/2025

As the Minnesota Nurses Association negotiates a new contract, safe staffing levels are the top concern for members.

For Chris Rubesch, a cardiac nurse, the most rewarding part of the job is “to see someone come in sick, injured, in pain, and to be able to see them through the healing journey and get them back home.” However, historically low staffing levels are making that more and more difficult, he says. Ru...

Minnesota's labor movement says, "an injury to one is an injury to all." From Lake Street to Los Angeles, union leaders,...
06/10/2025

Minnesota's labor movement says, "an injury to one is an injury to all." From Lake Street to Los Angeles, union leaders, organizers, and members have been on the front lines of resistance against Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

From Lake Street to Los Angeles, union leaders, organizers, and members have been on the front lines of resistance against Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

Trump is setting up a protection racket to expand corporate power around the world. Our latest.
06/04/2025

Trump is setting up a protection racket to expand corporate power around the world. Our latest.

This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. President Donald Trump stood behind a podium in a large clearing of the Rose Garden, American flags hanging vertically between each White House column, to lambast a global trade system in which ​“our country has been...

Minneapolis Celebrates 50 Years of International S*x Workers’ Day
06/04/2025

Minneapolis Celebrates 50 Years of International S*x Workers’ Day

On the afternoon of June 2, s*x workers and allies marched the streets of downtown Minneapolis for “Dancing in the Streets,” in honor of International S*x Worker’s Day, or International Wh**es Day, for its 50th anniversary. This year’s march was themed “Saints and Sluts” with attendees d...

The union says the labor relations system at the university is in shambles, and low-wage employees are subject to severe...
05/30/2025

The union says the labor relations system at the university is in shambles, and low-wage employees are subject to severe mistreatment.

The union says the labor relations system is in shambles, and low-wage employees are subject to severe mistreatment.

Ryan Christensen is a 52-year-old grocery worker for Lunds & Byerlys, where he has been for 38 years. Christensen says t...
05/19/2025

Ryan Christensen is a 52-year-old grocery worker for Lunds & Byerlys, where he has been for 38 years. Christensen says that what was once a strong, family-supporting job has deteriorated over time. He was one of 9,000 grocery employees working on an expired contract across the Twin Cities Metro rallying under the demand “One good job should be enough.”

Ryan Christensen is a 52-year-old grocery worker for Lunds & Byerlys, where he has been for 38 years. Christensen says that what was once a strong, family-supporting job has deteriorated over time. He was one of 9,000 grocery employees working on an expired contract across the Twin Cities Metro rall...

Minnesota’s labor movement is taking action against attacks on union and immigrant rights.
05/02/2025

Minnesota’s labor movement is taking action against attacks on union and immigrant rights.

Thousands of workers gathered on the steps of the Minnesota state capitol on May 1, or International Workers Day, un support of union and immigrant rights. Photo by Amie Stager.

Kroger and Albertsons tried to merge; union organizing stopped them. But the fight for grocery workers is just beginning...
04/28/2025

Kroger and Albertsons tried to merge; union organizing stopped them. But the fight for grocery workers is just beginning.

This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. In early February, when temperatures in Denver plunged to seven degrees below zero and snow dusted the sidewalks, Martin Bonilla, bundled in two jackets and a neck warmer, walked a picket line 1,000 miles from his home o...

Workers and unions across the U.S. are raising the alarm about the Trump administration’s attempts to divide the working...
04/03/2025

Workers and unions across the U.S. are raising the alarm about the Trump administration’s attempts to divide the working class. We found some historical examples specific to Minnesota's history of workers resisting the forces of division.

Historical examples of workers resisting the oligarchical forces of fascism and authoritarianism.

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