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A non-profit newsroom devoted to holding the powerful accountable through the perspective of workers. Based in Minnesota, covering the Midwest.
Why 650 Minnesota Doctors May Go on Strike
Allina Health doctors are set to strike for one day in order to improve conditions for both providers and the patients they serve.
Allina Health doctors are set to strike for one day in order to improve conditions for both providers and the patients they serve.
Why 650 Minnesota Doctors May Go on Strike - Workday Magazine
On November 5, 650 medical doctors, physicians assistants, and nurse practitioners with the Doctors Council-SEIU may go on a one-day Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike. The strike would impact over 60...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Why 650 Minnesota Doctors May Go on Strike
Allina Health doctors are set to strike for one day in order to improve conditions for both providers and the patients they serve.
Allina Health doctors are set to strike for one day in order to improve conditions for both providers and the patients they serve.
Today, @mfelocal59.bsky.social announced strike authorization vote results with 92% of voters approving a strike if needed. Why are Minneapolis educators escalating their actions for a contract? Read our recent story here: workdaymagazine.org/42-students-...
42 Students and 1 Adult: Minneapolis Educators Demand Safe Staffing - Workday Magazine
Union and community members rallied in support of Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 before the union went into mediation with Minneapolis Public Schools.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today, @mfelocal59.bsky.social announced strike authorization vote results with 92% of voters approving a strike if needed. Why are Minneapolis educators escalating their actions for a contract? Read our recent story here: workdaymagazine.org/42-students-...
Chicago Day Laborer, in ICE Detention, Says He’s Facing Retaliation Because Supporters Are Protesting His Abduction
“I was targeted for transfer to prevent my supporters from helping me.”
by @sarahlazare.bsky.social
“I was targeted for transfer to prevent my supporters from helping me.”
by @sarahlazare.bsky.social
Chicago Day Laborer, in ICE Detention, Says He’s Facing Retaliation Because Supporters Are Protesting His Abduction - Workday Magazine
This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. Willian Giménez González, a known advocate for the rights of day laborers who was abducted by federal agents on September 12...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Chicago Day Laborer, in ICE Detention, Says He’s Facing Retaliation Because Supporters Are Protesting His Abduction
“I was targeted for transfer to prevent my supporters from helping me.”
by @sarahlazare.bsky.social
“I was targeted for transfer to prevent my supporters from helping me.”
by @sarahlazare.bsky.social
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Willian Giménez González, a known advocate for the rights of day laborers, was abducted by federal agents in Chicago on September 12. He told me that he is now facing retaliation within ICE custody. “I was targeted for transfer to prevent my supporters from helping me,” he says. My latest.
Chicago Day Laborer, in ICE Detention, Says He’s Facing Retaliation Because Supporters Are Protesting His Abduction
“I was targeted for transfer to prevent my supporters from helping me.”
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October 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Willian Giménez González, a known advocate for the rights of day laborers, was abducted by federal agents in Chicago on September 12. He told me that he is now facing retaliation within ICE custody. “I was targeted for transfer to prevent my supporters from helping me,” he says. My latest.
The South St. Paul tanning workers who went on strike this past week won a tentative agreement yesterday! Update to come! workdaymagazine.org/why-twin-cit...
Why Twin City Tanning Workers are On Strike - Workday Magazine
Workers who prepare leather and fat for footwear and collagen are on a historic strike for better wages.
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October 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The South St. Paul tanning workers who went on strike this past week won a tentative agreement yesterday! Update to come! workdaymagazine.org/why-twin-cit...
Minneapolis educators union @mfelocal59.bsky.social just announced they will be holding a strike vote starting next Thursday if a settlement isn’t reached at the next mediation session.
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42 Students and 1 Adult: Minneapolis Educators Demand Safe Staffing - Workday Magazine
Union and community members rallied in support of Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 before the union went into mediation with Minneapolis Public Schools.
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October 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Minneapolis educators union @mfelocal59.bsky.social just announced they will be holding a strike vote starting next Thursday if a settlement isn’t reached at the next mediation session.
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workdaymagazine.org/42-students-...
Tanning workers in South St. Paul who work in hazardous conditions with harsh chemicals have been on a ULP strike for one week today. They're asking for better wages and say their employer hasn’t budged workdaymagazine.org/why-twin-cit...
Why Twin City Tanning Workers are On Strike - Workday Magazine
Workers who prepare leather and fat for footwear and collagen are on a historic strike for better wages.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Tanning workers in South St. Paul who work in hazardous conditions with harsh chemicals have been on a ULP strike for one week today. They're asking for better wages and say their employer hasn’t budged workdaymagazine.org/why-twin-cit...
“An Optimistic Book for Horrifying Times”: An Interview with Labor Writer and Historian Dave Kamper
"An Optimistic Book for Horrifying Times": An Interview with Labor Writer and Historian Dave Kamper - Workday Magazine
In the forthcoming book, Who’s Got the Power?: The Resurgence of American Unions, Minnesota-based labor writer and historian Dave Kamper unpacks the tumultuous wins and losses of the labor movement of...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“An Optimistic Book for Horrifying Times”: An Interview with Labor Writer and Historian Dave Kamper
How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor
While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.
Read our latest by @sarahlazare.bsky.social, published in partnership with @prospect.org
While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.
Read our latest by @sarahlazare.bsky.social, published in partnership with @prospect.org
How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor - Workday Magazine
This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and The American Prospect. CHICAGO – The last time Regina heard from her mother, Laura Murillo, she was calling from inside the ICE detention ce...
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October 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor
While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.
Read our latest by @sarahlazare.bsky.social, published in partnership with @prospect.org
While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.
Read our latest by @sarahlazare.bsky.social, published in partnership with @prospect.org
In September, @mfelocal59.bsky.social held their last public bargaining session before mediation. Their proposals on class size and wages directly impact student & worker safety, the quality of education, and keep up with the cost of living.
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42 Students and 1 Adult: Minneapolis Educators Demand Safe Staffing - Workday Magazine
Union and community members rallied in support of Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 before the union went into mediation with Minneapolis Public Schools.
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September 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
In September, @mfelocal59.bsky.social held their last public bargaining session before mediation. Their proposals on class size and wages directly impact student & worker safety, the quality of education, and keep up with the cost of living.
workdaymagazine.org/42-students-...
workdaymagazine.org/42-students-...
“The militarization of our community is a union issue, because no one is safe until all of us are safe.” new from @sarahlazare.bsky.social
“Even When They Gas Us": Hundreds Brave Tear Gas, Pepper Balls to Protest ICE
Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.
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September 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“The militarization of our community is a union issue, because no one is safe until all of us are safe.” new from @sarahlazare.bsky.social
“Even When They Gas Us”: Hundreds Brave Tear Gas, Pepper Balls to Protest ICE
Read our latest collaboration with @inthesetimes.com by @sarahlazare.bsky.social
Read our latest collaboration with @inthesetimes.com by @sarahlazare.bsky.social
“Even When They Gas Us": Hundreds Brave Tear Gas, Pepper Balls to Protest ICE - Workday Magazine
This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. Photographs by Isaac Silver. After the tear gas dispersed just enough to breathe, and street medics had flushed several peop...
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September 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
“Even When They Gas Us”: Hundreds Brave Tear Gas, Pepper Balls to Protest ICE
Read our latest collaboration with @inthesetimes.com by @sarahlazare.bsky.social
Read our latest collaboration with @inthesetimes.com by @sarahlazare.bsky.social
“One thing that we reiterate is that fear is one of the tactics that they’re reliably using, and that it is important for us to fight against it, to be daringly open, to be daringly in community with each other.” -Miguel Alvelo Rivera, Latino Union of Chicago
“Even When They Gas Us": Hundreds Brave Tear Gas, Pepper Balls to Protest ICE
Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.
inthesetimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“One thing that we reiterate is that fear is one of the tactics that they’re reliably using, and that it is important for us to fight against it, to be daringly open, to be daringly in community with each other.” -Miguel Alvelo Rivera, Latino Union of Chicago
ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers
“The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez.
Read our latest collaboration with @inthesetimes.com
“The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez.
Read our latest collaboration with @inthesetimes.com
ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers - Workday Magazine
This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. Even though President Donald Trump says he is pivoting from plans to deploy the National Guard in Chicago — now eyeing Memph...
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September 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers
“The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez.
Read our latest collaboration with @inthesetimes.com
“The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez.
Read our latest collaboration with @inthesetimes.com
UPDATE: yesterday, Teamsters Local 320 filed ULP complaints against UMN for alleged violation of workers’ rights & @farmaid.org artists & organizers express solidarity with workers, refusing to cross the picket line ahead of the 40-year-old festival scheduled for Sept. 20th
Hundreds of University of Minnesota facilities and food service workers are on strike on UMN campuses across the state.
"We Cannot Water Down Our Proposals Any More": UMN Teamsters Go on Strike - Workday Magazine
On Monday night, Teamsters Local 320 announced rolling strikes against the University of Minnesota. The first one starts at 10:00 p.m. on the Crookston and Morris campuses. Then the strikes will conti...
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September 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
UPDATE: yesterday, Teamsters Local 320 filed ULP complaints against UMN for alleged violation of workers’ rights & @farmaid.org artists & organizers express solidarity with workers, refusing to cross the picket line ahead of the 40-year-old festival scheduled for Sept. 20th
Hundreds of University of Minnesota facilities and food service workers are on strike on UMN campuses across the state.
"We Cannot Water Down Our Proposals Any More": UMN Teamsters Go on Strike - Workday Magazine
On Monday night, Teamsters Local 320 announced rolling strikes against the University of Minnesota. The first one starts at 10:00 p.m. on the Crookston and Morris campuses. Then the strikes will conti...
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September 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Hundreds of University of Minnesota facilities and food service workers are on strike on UMN campuses across the state.
“We Cannot Water Down Our Proposals Anymore”: UMN Teamsters Go on Strike
"We Cannot Water Down Our Proposals Anymore": UMN Teamsters Go on Strike - Workday Magazine
On Monday night, Teamsters Local 320 announced rolling strikes against the University of Minnesota. The first one starts at 10:00 p.m. on the Crookston and Morris campuses. Then the strikes will conti...
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September 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“We Cannot Water Down Our Proposals Anymore”: UMN Teamsters Go on Strike
“What is happening at Hennepin county?” Seven Senior Janitors Let Go with No Notice
"What is happening at Hennepin county?" Seven Senior Janitors Let Go with No Notice - Workday Magazine
Mercedes Ponce is in tears outside the Hennepin County Government where she worked as a subcontractor for 12 years doing janitorial work before getting the news last week that she’d be getting let go ...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
“What is happening at Hennepin county?” Seven Senior Janitors Let Go with No Notice
"Management can tear up the collective bargaining agreement, but it cannot get rid of the collective identity of workers, he says. They can still support each other, remain in communication and community, and act in solidarity on the job." via @sarahlazare.bsky.social
What It Means When Federal Union Contracts Disappear - Workday Magazine
This article is a joint publication of The American Prospect and Workday Magazine, a nonprofit newsroom devoted to holding the powerful accountable through the perspective of workers. Jason was electe...
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September 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Management can tear up the collective bargaining agreement, but it cannot get rid of the collective identity of workers, he says. They can still support each other, remain in communication and community, and act in solidarity on the job." via @sarahlazare.bsky.social
Deteriorating services, moms forced back from maternity leave, and more as federal workers lose formal union protections. Read our latest by @sarahlazare.bsky.social, published in partnership with @prospect.org
What It Means When Federal Union Contracts Disappear - Workday Magazine
This article is a joint publication of The American Prospect and Workday Magazine, a nonprofit newsroom devoted to holding the powerful accountable through the perspective of workers. Jason was electe...
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September 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Deteriorating services, moms forced back from maternity leave, and more as federal workers lose formal union protections. Read our latest by @sarahlazare.bsky.social, published in partnership with @prospect.org
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In a snap, Trump has attempted to vaporize collective bargaining agreements for about 7% of all US workers. @sarahlazare.bsky.social and our friends at @workdaymagazine.bsky.social explain what it means for workers to lose those rights at work.
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What It Means When Federal Union Contracts Disappear
Deteriorating services, moms forced back from maternity leave, and more as federal workers lose formal union protections.
prospect.org
September 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
In a snap, Trump has attempted to vaporize collective bargaining agreements for about 7% of all US workers. @sarahlazare.bsky.social and our friends at @workdaymagazine.bsky.social explain what it means for workers to lose those rights at work.
prospect.org/labor/trump-...
prospect.org/labor/trump-...
"Workers Over Billionaires" Rally at Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport for Labor Day
"Workers Over Billionaires" Rally at MSP Airport for Labor Day - Workday Magazine
On Labor Day, hundreds of workers from over 20 Minnesota unions and community organizations rallied at the Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) International Airport. They called for improvements to the lives o...
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September 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Workers Over Billionaires" Rally at Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport for Labor Day
"By going on strike, in part, for protections for immigrants, workers are showcasing a strategy to use workers’ most powerful weapon to protect union members. And if they win, they’ll be the first Teamsters local in the country to adopt such protective language."
How One Teamsters Local Is Striking to Protect Immigrant Workers - Workday Magazine
This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and The American Prospect. If it were up to Mauser Packaging Solutions management, there would be nothing in its contract with the union to stop...
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August 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"By going on strike, in part, for protections for immigrants, workers are showcasing a strategy to use workers’ most powerful weapon to protect union members. And if they win, they’ll be the first Teamsters local in the country to adopt such protective language."
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Workers at Mauser plant in Chicago have been on strike 11 wks and counting to demand protections against federal immigration authorities, among other demands. They want management to turn away ICE and DHS, unless they present a signed judicial warrant. My report from Teamsters Local 705 picket line.
How One Teamsters Local Is Striking to Protect Immigrant Workers
The union wants bosses to turn away immigration authorities unless they show a signed judicial warrant, but resistance is fierce.
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August 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Workers at Mauser plant in Chicago have been on strike 11 wks and counting to demand protections against federal immigration authorities, among other demands. They want management to turn away ICE and DHS, unless they present a signed judicial warrant. My report from Teamsters Local 705 picket line.
Read our latest Q&A with @rlmartstudio.bsky.social on his first book and the history that has led us to this moment: "We’re seeing more and more people stepping forward with real passion and commitment in defense of communities that they’re not a part of." workdaymagazine.org/what-does-th...
What Does the Land Know? Ricardo Levins Morales on Art and Organizing - Workday Magazine
Political medicine and wisdom for grassroots social movements from a longtime community organizer and artist.
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August 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Read our latest Q&A with @rlmartstudio.bsky.social on his first book and the history that has led us to this moment: "We’re seeing more and more people stepping forward with real passion and commitment in defense of communities that they’re not a part of." workdaymagazine.org/what-does-th...