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    News Article ● Labor Strike Unions

    MPS support professionals vote to authorize strike

    April 27, 2024 // Education support professionals working in Minneapolis Public Schools voted to authorize a strike on Friday. Support professionals overwhelmingly approved the potential strike in a vote last night. This comes after the teachers chapter of the union reached a tentative agreement with the district. The union said 92% of members who voted were in favor of the authorization.

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    News Article ● Strike

    Minneapolis Teachers Union Strike Ends

    March 30, 2022 // The new contract also includes language protecting educators of color from seniority driven layoffs (“if excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the District shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population,” the contract reads), and will add mentors to support educators of color in the district.

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    News Article ● Strike Unions

    Students hold sit-in at district office amid Mpls. teachers strike; food service workers union announces tentative agreement

    March 18, 2022 // "My hope is that we will truly dig into the equity part of it and make sure that our Black and brown educators are taken care of," El-Amin said. "There are lot of inequities we need to deal with other than the dollars on the table. Want to make sure families that look like me are being heard."

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    Press Release ● Strike Unions

    Special Legal Notice for Minneapolis and St. Paul Public School Educators

    March 8, 2022 // Media reports indicate that the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT), St. Paul Federation of Educators (SPFE), and other associated unions have threatened to order a strike beginning Tuesday, March 8 if Minneapolis and St. Paul public school officials do not make various concessions demanded by union officials during bargaining talks.

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    Group calls on Minneapolis school district, union to protect teachers of color before strike

    February 22, 2022 // A group is asking MPS and MFT Local 59 to sign an agreement protecting teachers of color from seniority-based layoffs.

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