“We Cannot Water Down Our Proposals Any More”: UMN Teamsters Go on Strike

After voting earlier on August 7 to authorize a strike during move-in week on campus, Teamsters Local 320 are now on rolling strikes against the University of Minnesota. The first one began Tuesday at 10:00 p.m. on the Crookston and Morris campuses. Then the strikes continued on Tuesday at 4:00 a.m. on the Duluth, Grand Rapids, Waseca, and Austin campuses, and Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. on Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses.

Stay tuned for updates, read up on some of the allegations against management, and check out this op-ed in the Minnesota Daily written by some building and grounds workers.

“What is happening at Hennepin county?” Seven Senior Janitors Let Go With No Notice

The morning of September 8, janitors represented by SEIU local 26 held a press conference outside the building where they worked, then marched together into the facility, where they delivered a letter to the office of Building Management demanding the workers be reinstated.

What Does the Land Know? Ricardo Levins Morales on Art and Organizing

“We organize first and foremost, so we can live, and second of all so we can live well,” writes visual artist and organizer Ricardo Levins Morales in his first book, The Land Knows the Way: Eco-Social Insights for Liberation. It is an ambitious tome for the social movement organizers, activists, and artists of our time who are seeking to unite the global working class against the many interlocking, spiraling systems of oppression that are exploiting people and the planet.

What It Means When Federal Union Contracts Disappear

In this joint publication with The American Prospect, Sarah reports on deteriorating services, moms forced back from maternity leave, and more as federal workers lose formal union protections.