Walz signs historic infrastructure bill from Ironworkers’ training floor
Gov. Walz signs a $1.88 package of infrastructure investments into law. In a ceremony held on the floor of Ironworkers Local 512’s apprenticeship training center today, Gov. Tim Walz signed into law a...
View ArticleSurvey says state’s educators are burning out fast
Educators from St. Paul and Minneapolis rallied together near the Lake Street bridge Sept. 30, urging their districts to engage with them in decisions about reopening school buildings. In-person,...
View ArticleMaking the adjustment: Union apprenticeship programs get creative to navigate...
Ironworkers Local 512 apprentice Travis Strugis gave Gov. Tim Walz a demonstration on the union’s training floor after Walz signed an infrastructure jobs bill in October. Early December is usually a...
View ArticleCOVID testing is free, fast and encouraged for frontline workers
Andrew Virden leads union officers on a tour of the community testing site at Roy Wilkins Auditorium. COVID-19 testing is fast, safe and open to anyone free of charge at 21 community testing sites...
View ArticleWait for vaccines to reopen schools, St. Paul educators say
Hamza Dirie, 9, shows support for teachers’ safety during a car rally staged by the St. Paul Federation of Educators. St. Paul educators, parents and community members wary of the district’s plan to...
View ArticleSt. Paul unions take on new role getting fresh food to families
Dave Hallas (L) of United Steelworkers Local 7263 and Tom Edwards, a retired Postal Worker from St. Paul, wave cars through a contactless food distribution event in St. Paul Park, where nearly 200...
View ArticleMarch events: Expo to connect women with pathways into trades
Photo by Bre Ana Henry, an apprentice with Ironworkers Local 512. Women in Construction Week runs from March 7 to 13, and local tradeswomen, in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Labor and...
View ArticleFair State, Schell’s brew together to celebrate solidarity
Fair State Brewing’s Union Lager is moving quickly in the taproom and in liquor stores – and in this reporter’s refrigerator, too. Minnesota’s oldest and newest union breweries have teamed up to craft...
View ArticleSt. Paul unions’ free food giveaways pass million-pound milestone
Volunteers load cars with 30-pound packages of fresh food in St. Paul Park, where the St. Paul Regional Labor Federation’s food giveaways surpassed the million-pound milestone Saturday. The St. Paul...
View ArticleUnion family sticking together as Marathon lockout drags on
Locked-out workers’ family and friends picket the Marathon refinery during a solidarity event. SAINT PAUL PARK – Megan Christner and Amber Marlatt could never put a price on the value of their...
View ArticleNorthwest Airlines museum gets parting gift from union retirees
Mary Sansom presents Bruce Kitt with a check for the airline retirees club’s remaining funds, made out to the Northwest Airlines History Center. Local airline retirees placed their social club into...
View ArticleWalz joins Building Trades unions in remembering fallen workers
In a ceremony today on the State Capitol grounds, Gov. Tim Walz and Labor Commissioner Roslyn Robertson joined members of Twin Cities Building Trades unions in paying tribute to workers who died in the...
View ArticleOutnumbered on the job site, tradeswomen find camaraderie, support via new...
Minnesotans from the United Association participating in the 2019 Tradeswomen Build Nations conference gathered on the steps of Ascension House in Minneapolis for a photo after volunteering inside....
View ArticleMedical cannabis workers ‘insulted’ by MN grower’s contract offer
When Vireo Health needed help lobbying state lawmakers to expand Minnesota’s medical cannabis program, employees and their union stepped up, helping push the measure across the finish line in May....
View ArticlePhotos: Teamster horses bring union’s history to life in Blaine
Before they were driving 18-wheelers and UPS trucks, Teamsters drove horses. The union’s name refers to the people who drove a team of horses pulling a wagon, and the Teamsters’ logo still features two...
View ArticleEducators frustrated by plan to uproot St. Paul students
Art teacher Lindsay Walker greeted returning students at Benjamin E. Mays elementary school with sidewalk chalk and confetti in one of several back-to-school celebrations staged by members of the St....
View ArticleNewly unionized Chisago Lakes custodians tap community support in first...
Custodians and supporters rally in advance of a first mediation session with the Chisago Lakes schools. If administrators in the Chisago Lakes School District thought they could push their school...
View ArticleConcrete Christmas display showcases union apprentices’ skills
Local 633 apprentices work on the annual holiday display in their training center. It already looks a lot like Christmas at the Cement Masons and Plasterers Training Center in New Brighton, where...
View ArticleReport: Union construction sites draw fewer safety violations
A new analysis of Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) inspections at construction jobsites in nine midwestern states backs up what unionized tradespeople have long been saying. Union...
View ArticleIBEW 110, Rice County Habitat enter third decade of partnership
(photo courtesy Logan Beere) It’s said that many hands make light work. But to make the lights work at a new fourplex under construction in Northfield, Habitat for Humanity tapped the expertise of...
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