Small business owners in Minneapolis say the city forced them to hire off-duty MPD officers for security gigs. Some were led to believe MPD wouldn't respond to their calls if they refused. The officers often insisted on cash payment. minnesotareformer.com/2023/10/17/sma…

At Mayo Clinic, workers say it’s just standard operating procedure to wait months to get appointments, plead with insurance representatives on hours-long calls and ultimately pay thousands of dollars for their health care. minnesotareformer.com/2023/10/25/may… via @mnreformer

A Vampiric Hedge Fund Is Eating the Pioneer Press Alive: racketmn.com/alden-capital-…

HuffPost has been sitting on Travis Waldron's Kissinger obit but it's a banger huffpost.com/entry/henry-ki…

A group of Uber and Lyft drivers announced plans for a strike at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. By: Alfonzo “FoFo” Galvan sahanjournal.com/business-work/…

As it turns out, shoplifting rates were lower by the end of 2022 than they were before the pandemic. So I wrote about one of America's latest moral panics—the shoplifting wave that wasn't—and how it's undoing years of progress in criminal justice reform. vox.com/politics/24025…

Sen. Erin Murphy will be the only person to serve as House Majority Leader and Senate Majority Leader. We have historical lists of majority leaders! lrl.mn.gov/history/smajmin AND lrl.mn.gov/history/hmajmin

REI workers picketed in front of the company's Maple Grove store as part of a 2-day strike protesting what they describe as "unfair labor practices." The workers accuse the company of taking away merit raises from unionized stores across the country. ccxmedia.org/news/maple-gro…

Happening Now: The Biggest Nursing Home workers ULP Strike in the history of Minnesota Over 1000 caregivers across 12 homes! #UnionsForAll #WinTogetherMN

NEW: Police chases in Minnesota have killed dozens of people since 2017. Most stem from traffic stops and nonviolent crimes. About half of the people killed are bystanders or passengers in the vehicles being pursued. minnesotareformer.com/2024/03/05/doz…

"she was already disappointed that Biden had not been able to forgive student loans or protect abortion rights. 'This is like the breaking point for me' [...] She hopes Biden will shift his policies instead of blaming voters."

1988 Dunn Bros ad in the Mac Weekly, right after the shop opened

“Higher CEO pay is a symptom of the corporatization of health care. Being a CEO is not an easy job, but is it 100 times more difficult than the job of cleaning hospital rooms?” #CorporateHealthcare #HealingGreed #PatientsBeforeProfits #mnleg postbulletin.com/business/shoul…

A Good Year for Workers—Union contracts negotiated in 2023 gave workers the highest average first-year wage increase for any year since the 1980s Workers received a 6.6% average 1st-year raise—With signing bonuses & lump-sum payments, the average was 7.3% news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-law-…

#OtD 25 Mar 1911 a fire took place in the New York Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, killing 147 workers, with most of the victims being women and young girls. The owners were charged with seven counts of manslaughter but weren't found guilty stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9761/T…

Video game workers in MN and two other states made history in March, winning recognition of the industry's largest union, Activision Quality Assurance United, an affiliate of CWA. advocate.stpaulunions.org/2024/03/22/vid…

Barnes & Noble workers are unionizing go improve pay and working conditions. They just won at their 6th election, despite the CEO showing up each time to discourage unionizing theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

“The big argument against us unionizing was it would make the CEO's life harder, which he would repeat several times. It wasn’t very successful.”

Corporate executives hold outsized power over patients and workers in our healthcare system. This law will help balance the scales as nurses carry on the fight to put #PatientsBeforeProfits. #UnionStrong #1u minnesotareformer.com/2024/04/10/une…