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St. Paul educators balk at district’s demand for concessions
Educators line the sidewalk outside St. Anthony Park Elementary during a walk-in event highlighting their union’s student-centered contract priorities. Less than two years after their historic strike...
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Quick fix for staffing crisis not enough, hospital nurses warn
One day after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced a $40 million plan to bolster hospital staffing with temporary hires, long-serving nurses from many of the state’s hospitals met with state and federal...
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Burnham sworn in as first person of color to lead MN AFL-CIO
Bill McCarthy administers the oath of office to Bernie Burnham. In a ceremony broadcast live on the federation’s social media platforms, outgoing Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy swore his...
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As staffing crisis deepens, DFL lawmakers respond with bill to keep nurses at...
Nurses and lawmakers hold a press conference to unveil the Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act. Minnesota lawmakers are taking aim at the staffing crisis in Minnesota hospitals and its crushing toll on...
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Remembering Shar Knutson: ‘Her presence will be missed, but her legacy lives on’
Shar Knutson ascended the ranks of Minnesota’s labor movement, starting as a member of AFSCME Local 1842 in St. Paul and retiring after six years in the state’s highest union office. Remembered by...
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Minnesota Building Trades on path to becoming Yellow Ribbon organization
Tom Simonet (L), chair of the Minnesota ESGR, joins Building Trades Council President Joe Fowler at the table during a signing ceremony. The Minnesota Building and Construction Trades Council redoubled...
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With Biden’s signature, postal reform measure will lift ‘5-ton weight’...
Advocates of preserving six-day mail delivery rallied outside the Minneapolis Post Office in 2013. After more than a decade of advocacy in Congress and sometimes in the streets, U.S. Postal Service...
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Cutting-edge geothermal system keeps Local 455 training center cool
Tony Poole, St. Paul Steamfitters and Pipefitters Local 455’s business manager, explains how a geothermal system cools the union’s Apprenticeship Training Center in St. Paul. At its Apprenticeship...
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After pandemic hiatus, Plumbers union brings back Water’s Off service day
Brett Bernhjelm and Julia Kunze pause for a photo with Dave Hallis, a disabled Navy veteran whose Maplewood home needed plumbing repairs. Bernhjelm is a military veteran, too, having served six years...
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In memoir, United Hospital nurse reflects on experiences in COVID ICU
The cover photo for Amanda V. Peterson’s memoir was taken by Dr. Avi Nahum, who treated COVID patients at Regions Hospital. After accepting a post in United Hospital’s COVID intensive care unit in...
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Unions honor fallen tradespeople on Workers Memorial Day
Twin Cities Building Trades councils observed Workers Memorial Day with a ceremony on the Capitol grounds today, remembering union tradespeople who died from workplace injuries and illnesses over the...
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Unions’ pre-apprenticeship program puts more Minnesotans on path to...
The Building Strong Communities program holds a graduation ceremony. (photo by Vince Muzik) Thirty-five Minnesotans are a big step closer to family-sustaining careers in the unionized construction...
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Women Building Success celebrates tradeswomen at awards ceremony
WBS award winners, L to R, include (back) Claire Boeke, Karin Dahlin, Dani Moss, Rosey Grab, (front) Marissa Goodsky, Brittney Bray and Robin Chuhel. Union tradeswomen and labor leaders gathered June 1...
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Staffing crisis prompts school employees to ask for support, patience
On the first day of school Benjamin E. Mays elementary school in St. Paul last year, teachers greeted returning students at with sidewalk chalk and confetti. As public schools across Minnesota scramble...
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‘Sky’s the limit’ as women workers revive Minnesota’s CLUW chapter
Outrage over the Supreme Court decision rescinding women’s right to an abortion has sparked interest among a growing number of local union members in the Coalition of Labor Union Women. CLUW is a...
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Nurses’ picket lines swell with community, labor support
“The people of Minnesota stand with you,” Gov. Tim Walz tells striking United and Children’s hospital nurses. The Minnesota Nurses Association’s trademark red radiated from picket lines outside Twin...
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Dems’ climate measure ties tax credits to prevailing wage, apprenticeship
Matt Campanario, executive director of the Carpenters Training Institute, leads Sen. Tina Smith on a tour of the LJ Shosten Training Center in St. Paul, which houses the union’s pile driver and...
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Union pipefitters help homeowners in need prep for cold weather
Avery Peterson (L) and Jim Westphall take a service call on St. Paul’s east side. Union pipefitters fanned out across the Twin Cities metro area Saturday to provide free furnace repairs and inspections...
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Minnesota union members led the fight to secure bonus pay for 1 million...
“It was hard times, but we made it through,” said Keith Farr, a meat cutter at Lunds and Byerlys. Over 1 million Minnesotans will begin receiving payments of $487.45 from the State of Minnesota this...
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HealthPartners member? Former Trades leader seeks your vote in board election
Harry Melander Longtime union leader Harry Melander is hoping to give working people a voice on the HealthPartners board of directors. Melander, who retired as president of the Minnesota Building and...
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