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Labor Movement Calls on Lawmakers to put Workers First in Jobs Bill

Labor Movement Calls on Lawmakers to put Workers First in Jobs Bill

As lawmakers sort out the state budget and policy details leading up to the expected June 14th special legislative session, 26 unions and labor organizations signed on to a Minnesota AFL-CIO letter to the Omnibus Jobs Bill working group, urging them to prioritize working people in the final legislation. “Working...
New Report Names Minnesota 42nd Most Dangerous Place for Workers

New Report Names Minnesota 42nd Most Dangerous Place for Workers

According to a new report released today by the AFL-CIO, Minnesota had the 8th lowest (and 42nd highest) rate of workplace deaths in 2019. This analysis, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows that 80 working Minnesotans lost their lives due to on-the-job injuries, resulting in 2.6 deaths per hundred...
House Jobs Bill delivers for working Minnesotans

House Jobs Bill delivers for working Minnesotans

Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy issued the following statement on yesterday’s passage of the House Jobs Bill: “No matter what we look like or where we live, working Minnesotans want jobs that can provide for themselves and families, safer workplaces, time to care for themselves and their families, and some...
Statement on Derek Chauvin’s Conviction

Statement on Derek Chauvin’s Conviction

Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy issued the following a jury finding former Officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts in the death of George Floyd: “Derek Chauvin has been held accountable for murdering George Floyd. While we celebrate today’s verdict, we have so much work ahead of us in order to build a...
Statement on the Death of Former Vice President Walter Mondale

Statement on the Death of Former Vice President Walter Mondale

Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy issued the following on the death of former Vice President Walter Mondale: “Walter Mondale represented the best of public service in Minnesota. As Minnesota’s Attorney General, US Senator, and our nation’s Vice President he fought for equity and justice. Vice President Mondale...
At the Capitol

At the Capitol
Open Letter from Minnesota AFL-CIO Leadership

Open Letter from Minnesota AFL-CIO Leadership

April 15, 2021 Dear Union Members, Minnesota’s Labor Movement is diverse. From the work we do, what we look like, where we live, where we were born, and how we pray – Minnesota’s union members come from all walks of life. While we have many differences, we are united by a set of shared values. We believe all...
Statement on the Police Killing of Daunte Wright

Statement on the Police Killing of Daunte Wright

Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy issued the following statement on the police killing of Daunte Wright: “Our state’s Labor Movement mourns as yet another unarmed Black Minnesotan is dead at the hands of law enforcement. Daunte Wright’s life mattered, his death is a tragedy, and he should be alive today. “The...
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Minnesota AFL-CIO supports Building Trades’ Speedway boycott

Minnesota AFL-CIO supports Building Trades’ Speedway boycott

Following the Saint Paul Building Trades’ Sunday announcement of a boycott of Speedway gas stations based on parent company Marathon’s labor & safety practices at their Saint Paul Park refinery, Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy issued the following statement: “Generations of Minnesota’s union workers have...
At Legislative break, House acts for workers while Senate stalls

At Legislative break, House acts for workers while Senate stalls

This week marks the Minnesota Legislature’s traditional Easter/Passover recess. In January, we announced our legislative priorities, which represents the Labor Movement’s shared state policy vision and our commitment to racial and economic justice. Our priorities of crisis relief, maintaining and expanding workplace...
Minnesota AFL-CIO Announces 2021 Legislative Priorities

Minnesota AFL-CIO Announces 2021 Legislative Priorities

The Minnesota AFL-CIO, the statewide federation of more than 1,000 local unions who represent more than 300,000 working people, announced its 2021 legislative priorities aimed at crisis relief, maintaining and expanding workplace rights and safety, extending paid leave for all workers, tax justice, and creating jobs...
PRO Act vote shows which Minnesota Representatives stand with workers

PRO Act vote shows which Minnesota Representatives stand with workers

Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy issued the following statement on the US House’s 220 to 205 passage of the Protecting the Right to Organizing (PRO) Act: “The US House of Representatives just took a major step toward leveling the playing field for working people by passing the PRO Act. “Today’s vote was an...
As Chauvin trial begins, Labor calls for justice & protecting free speech

As Chauvin trial begins, Labor calls for justice & protecting free speech

As jury selection begins in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for George Floyd’s murder, Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy issued the following statement: “We have full confidence in Attorney General Ellison and his team to prosecute this case and to see that George Floyd’s family...
When it comes to economic security, Minnesota has a serious deficit

When it comes to economic security, Minnesota has a serious deficit

Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy issued the following statement in response to the February state budget forecast: “While it’s encouraging to see Minnesota’s financial situation improving, the state budget has been underfunded for over 20 years. Understaffed classrooms, crumbling infrastructure, and...
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Racial & economic justice at the center of Labor’s legislative priorities

Racial & economic justice at the center of Labor’s legislative priorities

Nearly two months into Minnesota’s 2021 legislative session, Minnesota’s Labor Movement continues to pursue legislative priorities that put working people first, especially workers who have sacrificed most during this pandemic. At the core of the Minnesota AFL-CIO’s 2021 legislative priorities is advancing racial and...
Thank Governor Walz

Thank Governor Walz

Join us in thanking Governor Tim Walz for including the just tax increases in his budget proposal that will pay for critical actions to ensure Minnesotans have the healthcare and other supports to get through the pandemic and get back on their feet, and to build the strong and equitable future our communities need and...
Frontline Workers Speak Out About Need for COVID-19 Emergency Paid Leave

Frontline Workers Speak Out About Need for COVID-19 Emergency Paid Leave

Frontline workers spoke out Thursday morning in support of legislation providing up to 100 hours of emergency paid leave for frontline workers forced to stay home due to a COVID-19 diagnosis or exposure. Workers from across jobs and locations shared stories of how they’ve had to dip into savings or go unpaid when they...
PRO Act is Groundbreaking & Transformative for Working People

PRO Act is Groundbreaking & Transformative for Working People

Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy issued the following statement on today’s introduction of the Protect the Right to Organize (PRO Act) in the US House of Representatives: “The pandemic has made it even clearer that working people in Minnesota and across the nation need the voice, equity, and security that...
Unsafe Working Conditions Due to COVID-19? Learn About Your Right to Refuse

Unsafe Working Conditions Due to COVID-19? Learn About Your Right to Refuse

Minnesota’s Labor Movement is ready to stand with workers, both union and non-union, across the state to know their rights and enforce Gov. Walz’s Executive Order. Gov. Walz's Order gives you the freedom to refuse to work in unsafe or unhealthy working conditions due to COVID-19 and protection from retaliation if you...
Learning & Working Safe During a Pandemic

Learning & Working Safe During a Pandemic

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, life changed for all Americans. For Minnesota’s construction trades apprentices, work while continuing to learn a career took on new challenges. “We ate in our cars, constantly cleaned our tools, and kept our distance from each other,” said Heather Oehrlein, a third year Pipe Fitter...
Walz budget invests in working families’ priorities

Walz budget invests in working families’ priorities

Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy issued the following statement on Governor Tim Walz’s proposed state budget: “Governor Walz’s budget proposal is a bold plan that invests in priorities to help working people recover from the COVID-19 pandemic while laying out a vision for a more just and equitable state. “...
Union density increase shows working Minnesotans demand a voice

Union density increase shows working Minnesotans demand a voice

Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy issued the following statement on today’s US Bureau of Labor Statistics Report showing Minnesota’s union membership rate increased from 13.7% (364,000) of the workforce in 2019 to 15.8% (398,000) in 2020, jumping from having the 12th to the 10th highest union density in the...
Labor condemns Capitol insurrection, calls on complicit Minnesota Republicans to resign

Labor condemns Capitol insurrection, calls on complicit Minnesota Republicans to resign

The Executive Board of the Minnesota AFL-CIO unanimously passed a resolution today calling for the resignations or Congressional censure of Representatives Jim Hagedorn (CD 1), Tom Emmer (CD6), Michele Fischbach (CD-7), and Pete Stauber (CD-8) for their complicity in President Trump’s encouragement of last week’s US...
Attempted Coup an Unconscionable Assault on Democracy

Attempted Coup an Unconscionable Assault on Democracy

Statement from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the breach of the U.S. Capitol building: We are witnessing one of the greatest assaults on our democracy since the Civil War. Today’s attempted coup has been years in the making as Donald Trump consistently spews venom, conspiracies, hate and lies to his supporters....
Union members deliver Minnesota as part of Joe Biden’s & Kamala Harris’ historic victory

Union members deliver Minnesota as part of Joe Biden’s & Kamala Harris’ historic victory

As multiple news organizations declared Joe Biden President-elect and Kamala Harris Vice President-elect, Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy issued the following statement: “Minnesota’s union members are proud to be part of a movement that helped lay the groundwork for President-elect Biden’s and Vice President...
Minnesota AFL-CIO Releases 2020 Legislative Scorecard

Minnesota AFL-CIO Releases 2020 Legislative Scorecard

Following yesterday’s adjournment of October’s special legislative session, the Minnesota AFL-CIO released its 2020 legislative scorecard. The report shows how every lawmaker voted on issues important to both union members and all working Minnesotans. “With nearly two weeks remaining to vote, it is vital that working...
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