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Minnesota AFL-CIO pioneering apprenticeships for manufacturing workers

For decades, America’s construction unions’ apprenticeship programs have been the gold standard for empowering workers to thrive in the construction industry. Now unions in a handful of states, including Minnesota, are pioneering a similar model for workers in the manufacturing sector.

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Minnesota AFL-CIO helping to empower workers to report unsafe conditions

The Labor Movement’s long history is populated with fights for safer working conditions and workplace safety laws. The COVID-19 pandemic has put worker safety back in the spotlight as working people across Minnesota and the nation face unprecedented concerns.

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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.

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Minnesota AFL-CIO Calls for Minneapolis Police Union President Bob Kroll’s Immediate Resignation

Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy issued the following statement calling on Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis President Bob Kroll to immediately resign:

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Leave No Worker Behind

With rapidly changing news, the COVID-19 pandemic has working Minnesotans on edge. These tough times remind us that no matter what we look like, where we live, or what's in our wallets, at our core we’re all just human.

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Protect Minnesota's Wage Theft Law

Last year, Minnesota’s Labor Movement joined with community partners and lawmakers to pass the strongest protections against wage theft in the nation. By passing this bill, we made it clear that bosses who fail to pay workers what they are owed will face heavy consequences.

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