Can’t get enough pro-worker media

By Workday Magazine · Up With the Workers ·Jun 2, 2023 · 6 min read

Thank you for celebrating our relaunch! 🎉

Thank you to those who were able to make it to our relaunch party at Arbeiter Brewing. We had such a wonderful time meeting new folks and seeing familiar faces and discussing worker stories. Thank you to our panelists who shared their stories of organizing and how they use media to build power—Kevin Borowske with SEIU Local 26, Ibrahim Nur with the Awood Center, Ethan Carlson with Starbucks Workers United, and Mary Webb-Hampton with MFT 59. Thank you to our partner In These Times and Executive Director Alex Han for hosting our panel. Thank you to John See, Media Coordinator at Labor Education Service, who gave a short and stunning history of Workday. And thank you to our teammates at LES for supporting the Workday team.

Thanks to Jay Boller at Racket for interviewing Amie and writing up a story capturing our evolution: Workday Magazine is Relaunching to Better Tell Pro-Labor Stories.

The latest from Workday

Our coworker Cassie Williams, a labor educator and poet, wrote about Black motherhood and life in Even Breathing Is Strange: Reflections on the 3rd Anniversary of George Floyd’s Murder.

a white coffin lined with shattered mirrors and red handwriting reads: "“For all who weren’t filmed won’t get a trial haven’t received justice whose names weren’t said cases that were swept under the rug who didn’t get a national uprising and whose cities didn’t burn from grief you deserve it all VISUAL BLACK JUSTICE" — “For all who weren’t filmed won’t get a trial haven’t received justice whose names weren’t said cases that were swept under the rug who didn’t get a national uprising and whose cities didn’t burn from grief you deserve it all” A white coffin linked with shattered mirrors, created by activist and arts organization, Visual Black Justice.

Sarah’s latest story, co-published with The American Prospect, Minnesota Prison Officials Seized $10,000 in Wages From Incarcerated Workers, shows how Stillwater prison authorities gave 44 incarcerated workers a raise and then, months later, said they had to pay it back. The authorities even took money out of a check someone’s grandma sent them.

A greyscale archival photo with a black frame shows the view of a group of brick buildings on the shores of a frozen river during winter — According to the Minnesota Historical Society, the shops at the Minnesota State Prison at Stillwater have historically produced twine, shoes, high school scientific apparatus, and farm machinery and equipment. The prison industries program continues to produce twine and farm machinery.

Happy Pride month! Did you catch the inclusive definition of family member in Minnesota’s new paid family and medical leave policy? Learn about it in Amie’s latest story: How Minnesota’s New Paid Family and Medical Leave Protects LGBTQ+ Working Families.

A hand holds up a blue sign with the Minnesota state outline reading "Minnesotans for paid family & medical leave" and "paid leave for families & workers" behind the sign is a crowd of people, one person is raising their hand toward the right side of the image — *On the day of the Senate debate, workers and their allies rallied at*

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