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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Workers Interfaith Network and Centro De Derechos Laborales are proud to announce that our two organizations are joining together to build a more powerful movement for worker justice! CDL has worked closely with WIN since 2003. Late this summer, we nearly lost CDL when the Resource Center of the Americas closed. Now we have a chance to make sure that CDL’s work survives and thrives! We look forward to building something together that neither WIN nor CDL could build on its own.

We cannot make this new partnership succeed without you! [Read more →]

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In October, I had the chance to speak at Our Saviors Lutheran Church in South Minneapolis. I started with an exercise to demonstrate how unequally income is distributed in the economy. I asked members of the congregation, “what’s wrong with this?” They had great answers.

Then I shared my problem: To me, the unequal distribution of income and power among workers in our economy violates the second commandment: You must love your neighbor as yourself. I then elaborated, borrowing from a religious leader who’s spent his whole life fighting poverty, who thinks of the second commandment this way: you should want for your neighbor what you want for yourself. [Read more →]

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