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Dozens of unionized concessions workers picketed outside Target Field’s “front door” Gate 34 in Minneapolis on June 22 as part of a one-day strike, the first in the stadium’s history, as workers seek higher pay and health insurance.

Union members at the Pioneer Press opened negotiations with the newspaper’s hedge-fund ownership intent on bargaining a contract that respects their work, protects their safety and delivers wage and benefit gains.

In this sliver of land across from the sprawling JBS beef processing plant—among the largest in the country—workers from around the world have united in the largest U.S. meatpacking strike in 40 years. The 3,800 workers at the JBS beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, walked off the job on Monday, March 16, launching a two-week unfair labor practice strike.

Transportation Security Administration officers are struggling to afford basic necessities as they approach their second missed full paycheck since a funding lapse began last month, union leaders said at a virtual press conference Tuesday.

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Statement from Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham and Secretary-Treasurer Brad Lehto in response to today’s political violence: “On behalf of Minnesota’s Labor Movement, we are heartbroken at the murder of House Speaker Emeritus Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.