Join WIN on Thursday, January 24 for an action to show our continuing support of workers at Dakota Premium in South St. Paul. For over six months United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 789 members at Dakota Premium have been fighting against the decertification of the their Union orchestrated by the supervisors and company. Decertification means that workers will continue to face unsafe working conditions and a lack of access to better wages and affordable health care.

We are increasingly witnessing this type of intimidation these workers confront in workplaces across the Twin Cities. Here is a chance to support these workers as they courageously stand for their rights.  On Friday, January 25 workers will be voting to keep their Union in order to move on to negotiating their expired contract. We will be joining workers and members of the community to show our support for over 250 workers at Dakota Premium by leafleting outside of the plant gate this Thursday. Come anytime between 3:15 – 5:45 to N. Hardman Ave., South St. Paul.

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On Wednesday, September 18, join Workers Interfaith Network for an action to support workers at Dakota Premium, a Kosher meatpacking plant in South Saint Paul. Workers took a courageous stand at Dakota Premium 7 years ago, walking off the job for better wages and working conditions. Now they want to negotiate for a safer workplace, the right to take bathroom breaks, and better wages and health care. But instead of negotiating with workers, management at Dakota Premium is trying to break the union. All of this is happening on the eve of Yom Kippur, one of the most sacred holidays of the Jewish calendar. It is a sacred time and at Dakota Premium, sacred values are at stake.
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Every Thursday, beginning September 20, Workers Interfaith Network staff and leaders will gather at 11 a.m. at University Baptist Church to support striking workers at the University of Minnesota. To learn more about what you can do, go here.

Clerical, technical and health care workers are entering the second week of a strike aimed at winning just wages for workers that make the University of Minnesota run. The average worker in these fields at the U earns just $33,000 a year, and what’s more, workers salaries have not kept up with inflation, putting many in difficult financial circumstances.

Anne Markusen, a professor and the Director of the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics wrote in the Star Tribune, “Expert commentary in our times is rife with lament about the worsening distribution of income and wealth. The university’s gap-spreading raises would contribute to the growing inequity in society at large.” (Read the whole article here.) Markusen went on to say that the U’s refusal to pay a decent wage disproportionately effects women in the workforce. Standing up for U Workers is our opportunity to stand up for economic justice and shared prosperity for all.

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