BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 10/11/22
About 200 University of Minnesota AFSCME workers and their supporters joined a noon informational picket, October 10 to demand real raises, respect and racial equity.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 10/06/22
AFSCME at the University of Minnesota is holding an informational picket on Monday, October 10, from noon until 2 p.m. at Walter Library on the East Bank campus here.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 12/20/21
On December 16, around 2500 hundred clerical, technical and healthcare workers at the University of Minnesota reached a tentative agreement on a new contract.
BY staff | Minneapolis | 8/22/19
While the University of Minnesota top officials gathered for the opening of newly renovated Pioneer Hall, August 21, about 50 members of Teamsters Local 320 and other campus unions held an informational picket line to demand the year-round, full-time employment for workers in M Dining. The U of M has curtailed summer work opportunities for Teamsters and is trampling on seniority rights.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 11/24/15
“The strikers at Kohler are fighting for all workers. They are fighting for our future. We need to stand with them,” says Cherrene Horazuk, the president of AFSCME Local 3800, the union that represents clerical workers at the University of Minnesota.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 9/26/13
About 300 University of Minnesota (U of M) workers and their supporters gathered on Northrup Plaza, in front of the administration building Sept. 26, to rally for accessible and affordable healthcare. U of M workers are angry about proposed cuts to their health care benefits.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 6/06/13
Members of AFSCME Local 3800, clerical workers at the University of Minnesota, filled the room here, June 5, testifying at a Board of Regents’ public forum on the university budget.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 3/12/13
On March 12, the University of Minnesota presented the report it commissioned on its management structure to the Senate Higher Education Committee.
BY staff | St. Paul, MN | 1/09/13
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following speech given by Cherrene Horazuk, president of AFSCME Local 3800, in support of raising Minnesota’s welfare grants.
BY Tracy Molm | Minneapolis, MN | 6/15/10
Today 25 staff, faculty, graduate and undergraduate held a press conference to speak out against the University of Minnesota administration’s continued attempts to push budget cuts onto students and the lowest paid staff at the U.
