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2026 Minnesota AFL-CIO Endorsed Candidates

28 May, 2026

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Minnesota’s Labor Movement awarded AFL-CIO’s George Meany–Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award

07 Jun, 2026

At its 30th Constitutional Convention in Minneapolis, the AFL-CIO, the federation of 65 national and international labor unions that represent nearly 15 million working people, awarded Minnesota’s Labor Movement the 2025 George Meany–Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award for union and union members’

Labor Endorsed - Amy Klobuchar - Governor

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Minnesota AFL-CIO Endorses Amy Klobuchar for Governor

27 May, 2026

The Minnesota AFL-CIO, the state federation of more than 1,000 local unions collectively representing more than 300,000 working people, endorsed Sen. Amy Klobuchar for Governor. “Minnesota is one of the best states for working people, and we need a governor who will keep it that way as workers face

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Minnesota Labor Newspapers

Only a handful of active Labor newspapers remain in the United States and Minnesota is fortunate to be home to three of them. For the latest local labor news, check out:

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Democrats Have an Ambitious Plan to Save American Labor Unions

16 May, 2019

House Democrats have a plan to make unions great again.

They’re trying to get support for a sweeping labor reform bill that would reverse decades of Republican-backed policies meant to crush labor unions.

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All Teachers Could Benefit from Unions

16 May, 2019

Re: Ashley Jochim's April 25 Detroit News opinion, "Charter schools, the future of teachers unions": There is no doubt Michigan’s public schools are facing problems and it

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The gig economy fails to share the wealth with workers. Here’s how we fix it

10 May, 2019

Like so many California families, Karim Bayumi of Anaheim, his wife and two young children are doing everything they can to scrape by.

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Larry Hanley Was a Transformational Labor Leader. He Will Be Missed.

10 May, 2019

On May 7, while recovering from an illness, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) International President Larry Hanley died suddenly. In a brief statement, his family, quoting Mary G. Harris “Mother” Jones, urged us to: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living."

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Statement on Vice President Mike Pence’s “New NAFTA” Minnesota visit

09 May, 2019

Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bill McCarthy issued the following statement ahead of Vice President Mike Pence’s scheduled visits to Glyndon & St. Paul to discuss the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the proposed replacement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA):

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Companies Backing NAFTA Overhaul Outsourced Hundreds Of Thousands Of Jobs

08 May, 2019

Multinational corporations pressing Congress to adopt an updated version of the North America Free Trade Agreement shed over half a million U.S. jobs for trade-related reasons since NAFTA took effect, according to a new analysis of government data.