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Kmart, Target, Sears Subcontractor Faces Class Action Suit From Hundreds Of...
Click on picture to see CTUL demonstrationHundreds of more workers may be joining a class action lawsuit against a company that cleans stores for major retailers. 12 Twin City cleaning workers...
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Recovery for Whom? Unionized Security Guards Prepare for Strike
Click Here to See Video of Rally for Security GuardsAfter four hours of negotiations, some 2,000 officers represented by Service Employees International Union Local 26 (SEIU) say negotiations broke...
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Cleaning Workers Ask Target, Other Firms to “Unlock” Future, Raise Pay, Benefits
Click photo to watch video about picketing outside Target headquartersLast week, janitors represented by SEIU Local 26 got a new contract deal after 31 hours of negotiation. It included raises and...
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Union Security Guards Reach Deal After Staging One-Day Strike
Click on Photo to Learn why SEIU Security Workers are StrikingTwin Cities security guards represented by SEIU Local 26 reported this morning that they had reached a tentative agreement with their...
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Busting Myths on $7.25 an Hour…An Uptake Leadership Profile: Veronica Mendez
Click on the Image of these Retail Cleaners in front of Kmart to Hear how they are Fighting for a Living Wage.Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in an UpTake series of profiles on men and women whose...
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Law Allowing Day Care Workers to Unionize Passes After Ugly Debate
Sen. Sandy Pappas and Rep. Michael Nelson Celebrate with a Round of "Solidarity Forever" after passage of Bill giving Day Care workers right to unionize. Click on photo to watch video.On the final day...
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Striking Pizza Workers March 18 Miles To Demand Union And Bigger Piece Of The...
Click here for sharable version of this video Click photo to see video of the march and hear stories from Palermo workersSaturday marked the one-year anniversary of when about 100 workers went on...
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Signs Budget
Gov. Scott Walker signs the $68 Billion Wisconsin budget Sunday.Story for The UpTake by Tracey PollockPleasant Prairie, Wis.Gov. Scott Walker signed the $68 billion biennial Wisconsin state budget...
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Milwaukee Labor Day Parade — Numbers Down but Spirits Up
Story and video for The UpTake by Tracey PollockMilwaukeeAround 2,000 people gathered for the annual Labor Day parade in Milwaukee; a smaller number than recent Labor Day celebrations in a city with a...
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Minnesota Orchestra: Will September 15 Be The Day The Music Died?
A vintage LP recording of The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (ca. 1959) under the baton of conductor Antal Dorati. After more than a century of distinguished musicmaking, the Minnesota Orchestra may be...
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Fight For Living Wages Ends In 26 Black Friday Arrests in St Paul
Protesters demanding living wages for retail and janitorial workers block the busiest intersection in the Twin Cities Friday. Twenty-six were arrested peaceably by St Paul police officers. Click on the...
View ArticleDFL Leaders Agree To Minimum Wage Hike, Deny “Horsetrading” On Building Deal
After months of negotiations, DFL leaders from the House and Senate announced an agreement raising Minnesota’s minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2016. The agreement also includes automatic increases in...
View ArticleDemocrats Turn Up Heat On McFadden Cheaper Chinese Steel Comment
Minnesota Democrats are trying to turn a comment about steel from Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Mike McFadden into a major campaign issue to unite Iron Range residents against him — something...
View ArticleObama Sets Tone For Congressional Elections With Milwaukee Laborfest Speech
President Obama rallied Wisconsin workers with his speech at Milwaukee’s annual Laborfest this Labor Day. His intention was to make an economic argument that Democrats present the best option for...
View ArticleJanitors Threaten Strike Against Big Box Retailers On Black Friday
Janitors who clean Home Depot and other Twin Cities stores are using the upcoming holiday shopping season to put pressure on the big box retailers and the subcontracting companies that employ the...
View ArticleUnion Accuses AT&T Of Violating New Minnesota Sick Leave Law
A new Minnesota law explicitly says companies must let employees use sick time to care for ill relatives. Yet AT&T is telling some of its longest tenured employees that they can’t do that since...
View ArticleWhy Activists Shut Down Interstate 35W
The names of the dead rang out over a loudspeaker on a Minneapolis street corner. Each name was a man, woman or child, most of them black, who had died at the hands of police — murdered – claimed the...
View ArticleISAIAH Asks Sears For Better Treatment Of Employees
On Saturday, a group organized by ISAIAH gathered in the parking lot of the Sears store in St. Paul on Rice Street, west of the State Capitol complex to seek better working conditions for Sears...
View ArticleSen. Franken Blasts GOP Anti-Union Measure Reversing NLRB Rule
Republicans controlling the U.S. Senate are trying to reverse a new National Labor Relations Board rule that would shorten the time between a union’s request for representation and the vote on whether...
View ArticleShould Lawmakers Be Treated Like Teachers When It Comes To Seniority?
Would Republican lawmakers like a taste of their own medicine? That seemed to be the message behind an amendment Rep. Carly Melin (DFL-Hibbing) offered to a controversial education bill which says...
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