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Union members urge Klobuchar to take a stand against Fast Track
CWA Minnesota State Council President Mona Meyer speaks at a trade demonstration outside Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s offices in Minneapolis. Union members today called on U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar to take a...
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‘Boots on the ground’ provide Labor’s edge in 2014
Linda Yang (L) and Diana Hill, members of CWA Local 7250, put their skills into action during a phone bank at the Labor 2014 campaign school in St. Paul. From TV ads to robocalls, technology has...
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TakeAction employees unionize, join Newspaper & Communications Guild
Employees at TakeAction Minnesota, the progressive-advocacy group based in St. Paul, came together to form a union last week, joining the Minnesota Newspaper & Communications Guild, TNG-CWA Local...
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CWA rallies support for members charged in Black Lives Matter protest at MOA
The Communications Workers of America is rallying support for two members of the union who face criminal charges resulting from their participation in the massive protest against police brutality and...
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Labor urges Congress to pump the brakes on fast track
U.S. Reps. Keith Ellison and Rick Nolan host a field hearing on trade at Richfield City Hall. Unions are joining a national day of action to stop fast track March 4, and two members of Congress from...
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Tellers, teachers, Somali immigrants take on big banks during St. Paul rally
Been targeted with a high-pressure sales pitch at your bank recently? You’re not alone, according to a report released earlier this month exposing a “new era of predatory lending” in the industry. But...
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AT&T workers in Minneapolis strike over sick pay for longest-serving employees
Workers in AT&T’s credit collections department walked off the job in Minneapolis this afternoon, joining a “grievance strike” to demand AT&T stop denying sick pay to its longest-serving...
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Gold watch? Fountain pen? For 25th anniversary, AT&T guts MN workers’ sick leave
CWA Local 7250 members impacted by AT&T’s sick-pay policy include Susan Anderson (green coat), Dan Waalen-Radzevicius (black coat) and Deb Derke (red shirt). Members of Local 7250 of the...
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Minnesota native wins election as CWA’s secretary-treasurer
Fridley native Sara Steffens was elected secretary/treasurer of the Communications Workers of America, one of the largest labor unions in the country. Steffens, 43, was sworn in at the union’s 75th...
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Workers to rally outside courthouse as AT&T sues to deny their sick pay
CWA members walk a picket line outside AT&T offices downtown Minneapolis during a grievance strike in May 2015. AT&T is challenging a new Minnesota law allowing workers to use paid sick time to...
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Building a movement to combat student debt, CWA offers free, public clinics...
CWA members who attended the Nov. 4 student debt clinic include (L to R) Tom Laabs, Howard Terry and Naomi Holmes. Naomi Holmes will run out of deferments on $57,000 in student debt this winter. Howard...
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Minnesotans plan show of solidarity with striking Verizon workers
Nearly 40,000 Verizon workers in the Northeast have been on strike for more than three weeks now. Their supporters in Minnesota will stand in solidarity tomorrow, a national day of action, outside the...
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Solidarity actions with Verizon strikers to continue in Twin Cities
Workers picketed in solidarity with 39,000 striking Verizon workers outside the company’s Roseville store last week. (Labor Review photo) Union members in the Twin Cities plan to keep the heat on...
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Union volunteers give $15 petition drive a boost in Minneapolis
Alec Johnson (ATU Local 1005) and Katie Quarles (MNA) door-knock for a $15 minimum wage in Minneapolis. Katie Quarles, a nurse at United Hospital in St. Paul, was among 40 union members who answered...
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Pioneer Press workers join nationwide contract campaign, win first raise in...
After banding together with workers at 11 other newspapers owned by the same hedge fund, union members at the St. Paul Pioneer Press won their first wage increase in seven years, part of a new...
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Minnesota union members marched against Trump in droves. Here’s why
D Rojas, a member of Carpenters Local 322, attended the Women’s March in Minnesota a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration with several other Minnesota union tradeswomen. Dressed in hard hats and...
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As local preemption debate heats up, new book charts CA city’s progressive...
Mayoral elections are on the horizon in both Minneapolis and St. Paul. Corporate lobbyists at the Minnesota Capitol are taking aim at local ordinances expanding access to earned sick and safe time. The...
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Unions gaining public favor, losing ground in workplace
Union members are becoming increasingly scarce in the U.S. labor force. It’s a trend that continued in 2016, when union density fell from 11.1 to 10.7 percent of the total workforce, according to...
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Poised to strike this weekend, AT&T wireless workers seek support on picket line
Melinda Casey of Minneapolis is among 2,000 AT&T wireless workers in Minnesota poised to strike this weekend. “I have a family to support. I have two children. I need a job that’s secure,” she...
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U.S. negotiators following TPP script in NAFTA 2.0 talks, observers warn
Two months into NAFTA renegotiation talks, the process is looking awfully familiar to labor and fair-trade observers – and not in a good way. When his trade representatives opened talks with Canada and...
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