The history of labor organizing in Minnesota
Since statehood, Minnesota workers have joined together to improve and protect their livelihoods, rights, and voices in the workplace.
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Since statehood, Minnesota workers have joined together to improve and protect their livelihoods, rights, and voices in the workplace.
Yes. Beginning in 1940, a group of Minneapolis businessmen created the Aquatennial, a civic festival and parade, to “improve Minneapolis’s reputation nationally” following labor strikes in the 1930s.
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Jeremy Brecher's short history of the militant and successful strike of truck drivers in Minneapolis in 1934, in which strikers beat police off the streets.
A history of the 1934 strike of Teamsters in Minneapolis and the organising of workers of trucking companies across the city prior to it.