As sugar beet harvesting season comes and goes in the Red River Valley, Mark Froemke, president of the West Minnesota Area Labor Council/Red River Valley, AFL-CIO, reflects on worker power in the region.
A hundred years ago, radical Finnish immigrants founded a cooperatively-owned park to escape political repression on Minnesota’s Iron Range. It’s still “a workingman’s paradise.”
The progressive Minnesota congresswoman said her Democratic challenger is "actively courting Republican votes and desperately seeking funding from AIPAC."
If Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are elected this fall, not only would a woman of color lead the country for the first time, but a Native woman would govern a state for the first time in U.S. history too.
How a childcare worker and mom living and working in Minnesota’s Iron Range would like to see the industry better support workers and children alike.
Sustaining democracy with collective action
An enduring union-community alliance in the Twin Cities may be a model for progressive victories. The Twin Cities saw a series of labor actions, premised on the belief-the more disparate groups of workers unite in common cause, the more they can win.
In Minnesota's primary for the Democratic Party, more than 45,000 people voted uncommitted. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said on CNN Wednesday morning that "these are voters that are deeply concerned, as we all are. The situation in Gaza is intolerable."
Labor and community organizations who have been aligning for years are escalating their fights at the same time.
Last month, nearly 600 private sector doctors and other health care providers in Minnesota and Wisconsin voted to unionize — likely the biggest union of private sector doctors in the US. We talked to some of them about why.
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