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Workers are organizing through unions and other organizations to improve their lives. Union representation provides a voice on the job and the opportunity to improve wages, benefits and working conditions.

Worker Power
April 8, 2015
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Machinists withdraw application for election at Delta Air Lines

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota
WASHINGTON
Saying the action marks a temporary delay in organizing efforts, the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers has withdrawn its application for an election among flight attendants at Delta Air Lines.
Worker Power
March 4, 2015
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Target challenged to raise wages for its lowest-paid workers

By Michael Moore, Union Advocate
MINNEAPOLIS

Activists picketed outside Target Corp.’s headquarters downtown Minneapolis Tuesday, calling on CEO Brian Cornell to make raising wages for frontline workers a part of the company’s massive restructuring effort.

Worker Power
March 2, 2015
New MAC Commissioner Ibrahim Mohamed

In nod to organizing efforts, Dayton appoints Air Serv worker to MAC

By Michael Moore, Union Advocate
BLOOMINGTON

Low-wage workers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport now have a voice on the airport’s governing body, thanks to Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton.

Worker Power
February 20, 2015
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Minnesota cannabis workers win first union contract

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota
SOUTH ST. PAUL

Labor rights in Minnesota crossed into a new frontier Friday when workers who cultivate medical cannabis ratified their first-ever union contract.

Worker Power
February 17, 2015
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Coalition launches effort for $15 minimum wage in Minneapolis

By Michael Moore, Union Advocate
MINNEAPOLIS

More than 100 activists gathered in a Minneapolis union hall Sunday night to begin the work of raising the minimum wage within city limits to $15 per hour.

Worker Power
February 10, 2015
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Seattle council member to headline rally for $15 wage

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS

The Seattle City Council member who led the successful campaign for a $15-an-hour minimum wage in that city will headline a rally at the Minneapolis Labor Center on Sunday.

Worker Power
January 28, 2015
Delta Flight Attendants

Delta absorbed Northwest – and their union. But MSP flight attendants didn’t stop fighting

By Michael Moore, Union Advocate
BLOOMINGTON

For many of the 1,800 Delta flight attendants based at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the upcoming vote to form a union is about more than wages, benefits and work rules.

Worker Power
January 26, 2015
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Workers successfully pressure Air Serv to provide pay stubs

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota
BLOOMINGTON
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport workers employed by Air Serv won a victory this week when the company agreed to provide them with paper copies of their paycheck stubs.
Worker Power
January 25, 2015
Map of union membership 2014

Union membership remained steady in 2014

By Mark Gruenberg, Press Associates Union News Service
WASHINGTON
Union density was 11.1 percent in 2014, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, down 0.2 percent from the year before. Unions added 48,000 members last year, but the workforce grew even more.
Worker Power
January 16, 2015
How can we live on this?

Air Serv workers protest standby scheduling at airport

By Michael Moore, Union Advocate
BLOOMINGTON

Air Serv’s new "standby" scheduling practices have riled Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport workers, who registered their frustrations at a rally inside Terminal 1 Thursday.

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