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Minneapolis is poised to establish a powerful new tool for improving labor standards in the city, and two Confluence grantees, as well as many of our labor union partners, are calling for public support this week to help move the proposal over the...

August and September brought two Workers Confluence events, both of which explored critical intersections for the labor movement. On August 28th, Confluence partnered with the Minnesota AFL-CIO and their Racial and Economic Justice Committee to ho...

This annual report, Confluence’s first, shares highlights from 2023 as well as our brief history so far and a bit about where we are headed next. Some highlights: Read the complete report here.

From August 12th to 14th UNITE HERE!’s International Union, which represents restaurant and hospitality workers, brought leaders from all over the country to Minneapolis to dig in on union business and organizing strategies. As part of the visit, ...

Ann Kim and Vestalia Management Restaurant Group may have closed Kim’s Uptown Restaurant in retaliation for workers organizing. This leaves workers, the community, and legal experts asking serious questions. On June 27th, workers at Kim̵...

“The rest of the country is about to find out what working Minnesotans have known for years – Tim Walz is one of us who fights for working people like us every single day.”  – Bernie Bernham, President of Minnesota AFL-CIO Minnesota was...

Striking Minneapolis park workers announced a tentative agreement on July 26th, three full weeks after the strike began on July 4th. Details, including when striking workers will return to work, will be made public in the coming days. Workers Conf...

Winding Path to Victory for MN Rideshare Drivers After a tumultuous few months of bold organizing, tentative alliances, corporate threats and state-vs-municipal wrangling, Minnesota rideshare drivers are getting a raise. Faced with the possibility...

Workers at three high profile Minneapolis restaurants – Kim’s Uptown, Colita, and all four Cafe Ceres locations –  have recently gone public with campaigns to unionize. These developments make it clear that December 2023’s First A...