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Community
April 3, 2019

Minnesota’s Labor Movement mourns the death of former MN AFL-CIO President Dan Gustafson

By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez, Workday Minnesota
ST. PAUL
"President Dan Gustafson was a big supporter of worker education and a very good friend of the Labor Education Service," said John See Co-Director of the Labor Education Service at the University of Minnesota. "He was one of the early believers in our efforts to use local cable TV to tell workers' stories, to the extent that he occasionally hosted "Minnesota at Work" in its heyday, another venue where he displayed a brilliant mind for politics and finances and history- and how it all fits together. We will always be grateful for his support and friendship." 
Government
April 1, 2019
Prison Cuffs

Labor Law Doesn’t Apply If You’re in Prison

By Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard, In These Times
New Jersey

Alexander was never able to make his case in court–and challenge Ortiz’s claims. The judge would not let the case proceed to a trial, determining Alexander was a prisoner and therefore not entitled to work in a non-discriminatory workplace.

Worker Power
March 28, 2019
Public Sector Worker

A Blow But Not Fatal: 9 Months After Janus, AFSCME Reports 94% Retention

By Heather Gies, In These Times
WASHINGTON, D.C.

The labor union in the crosshairs of the right wing-led effort to gut public sector unions through a landmark Supreme Court case released new membership data Wednesday showing a decline that experts say could mark the beginning of larger losses, but is far shy of a fatal blow. 

Worker Power
March 21, 2019
GEO Strike

'We Demand Food for Thought'

By Hannah Steinkopf-Frank, In These Times
CHICAGO

Graduate employees at the University of Illinois at Chicago began an indefinite strike on March 19, demanding livable wages and better working conditions as part of a national wave of educator-lead organized labor efforts

Community
March 14, 2019
The winners of this year’s “Women Building Success Awards"

Second annual awards ceremony honors women in the trades

By Steve Share, Minneapolis Labor Review
Minneapolis/Saint Paul

As part of national “Women in Construction Week,”  women and men from local building trades unions gathered March 6 at Surly Brewing for the region’s second annual “Women Building Success” awards ceremony.

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