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Workday Minnesota is the latest development in a long-term communications partnership between the Labor Education Service, University of Minnesota, and the working people of the state and their labor organizations.Workday Minnesota does not reflect the views of any institution or organization but rather seeks to be a news and information source that combines journalistic ethics and practices with a focus on the lives and concerns of working people. Our admitted bias is that we present the world of events and issues through the prism of social and economic justice and the dignity of work. We offer Workday Minnesota as an alternative to the world of corporate-dominated media.

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Young workers stage 'die-in' at Wells Fargo

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

Challenging the money that Wells Fargo is spending on politics – including funding this fall’s controversial voter ID amendment vote – young workers staged a brief die-in at the bank’s downtown headquarters. Friday’s action was part of a “Next Generation” conference for members of the Communications Workers of America.MORE »

OPINION | History being re-written at law enforcement memorial

By Dave Riehle, Workday Minnesota

On Tuesday, May 15, National Law Enforcement Day, law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty will be honored with a day-long series of events. Among those whom the Minnesota Law Enforcement Memorial Association will honor for the first time will be C. Arthur Lyman, who was killed on May 22, 1934.MORE »

OPINION | Attacks on workers in 2012 legislative session were unprecedented

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

With Republicans in control of both houses of the Minnesota Legislature for the first time in 38 years, they unveiled an unprecedented attack on worker rights and protections, including the granddaddy of all anti-union legislation: “Right to work.”MORE »

Workers schedule strike vote, question banks' involvement with Twin Cities hospitals

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

Members of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota will vote May 14 and 15 whether to authorize a strike at eight Twin Cities hospitals. They also are challenging the roles of bankers on hospital boards and a debt collection company that has garnered headlines for questionable practices.MORE »

In groundbreaking case, contractor charged with stealing from workers

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota

A trucking company owner faces felony “theft by swindle” charges for stealing thousands of dollars in wages from employees, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office announced Thursday. County Attorney Mike Freeman said the groundbreaking case should be a signal to all contractors to obey the law and pay their employees fairly.MORE »

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