Minnesota’s Workforce Rights Over Time

This year’s May 1 parade, which is part of an international workers’ rights movement that sparked from a Chicago tragedy on May 1, 1886. Photo Sarah Whiting





Timeline details adapted from a compilation by Barb Kucera, University of Minnesota Labor Education Service
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