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An Historical Lesson in Economic and Union Policies: The Hormel Strike of 1985

When the seven-year wage freeze finally expired in 1984, employees expected negotiations to focus on raises that would compensate for years of sacrifice. Instead, Hormel proposed a 23 percent wage cut.

Values Voiced by Minnesota Legislators in Response to ICE Accountability Measures 

One of my questions as a voter: Why did votes for bills to protect Minnesotans, increase transparency, and enforce civil rights fall along party lines in almost every instance?

Who Doesn’t Want to Ban Semi-Automatic Weapons? A Deep Dive on Legislative Efforts

Guns have remained the leading cause of death for children and adolescence in the United States. “If this was any other leading cause of death we would respond with urgency. We would study it, we would fund it, we would coordinate a serious, sustained response.”

BOOKS: Erika Lee’s Introduction to U.S. Xenophobia

"Xenophobia has helped siphon working-class resentment away from corporate greed and economic inequality and direct it toward immigrants. Scapegoating foreigners has also helped undermine interracial labor movements that challenge the worst corporate abuses.”

Q&A With Bernie Burnham: Solidarity Goals of Minnesota’s AFL-CIO

"My mom was an Irish immigrant. This country was founded on immigrants, and we took this land from the people who were here. Nobody really belongs here, unless you are an Indigenous person. In my heart, it's important to show up and be there for everybody — working class people, children, immigrants, women, LGBTQ+, anyone who has been othered or put down because of who they are, their religion. Whatever it is, I'm going to stand up. That's the right thing to do."

Petitions, Sit-in, and Group Advocacy at Capitol Today to Require a House Vote on Gun Violence Prevention Measures

"Students are done begging lawmakers to care about our safety. More than 7,000 people signed this petition in just one week because Minnesotans are demanding action on gun violence, not excuses and delays. Students across Minnesota are watching, organizing, and ready to hold them accountable if they continue to block these lifesaving policies.”

Photo Gallery From the Conejo Rally

  On Saturday, May 9, Minnesotans gathered at the…

Talk & Do: Mothers in Greater Minnesota Call for Anti-Racist Education and Accountability (Part 1)

Yes, kids will be kids, “until you teach a child what they can and cannot do, and then they're going to be a different kind of kid.” By humanizing school systems, kids can “show up as whole people, not scared, not timid, and not head on a swivel — learning is not taking place in those situations, when we're just trying to get through a day.”

Talk & Do: Steps to Get From Crisis Response to Community Healing (Part 2)

“What I hope will come out of this winter are a reinvestment in mutual aid that is community-organized and led. That is whole-community resilience. These systems could keep being strengthened if they keep being nurtured.” Society has “not yet started to see the mental health impacts” these crises will have on children over time.

“250 Years”: How We Could Reduce Crime Better

"We must create systems that allow people to rebuild and rehabilitate. Just like poverty can drive crime, deprivation inside prison creates that same cycle. When you have nothing, you do what you have to do to survive. Survival mode is not rehabilitation.” ... Research over decades “has repeatedly shown that incarceration is among the least effective and most expensive approaches to crime prevention.”

SERIES: “250 Years”

How has the country been defined — and how is it being redefined — especially in its rights for women, labor, and immigrants?

NEWS: Rise Up Center for Workforce Training Breaks Ground in Uptown Minneapolis

"In the labor movement, we believe that all work has dignity and that every worker, no matter where they come from, what they look like, or what they do for a living, deserves access to a stable, sustaining job and the necessary training for advancement."