Fridley's Home Depot among 10 Twin Cities Stores Targeted in 1-Day Strike
Unorganized cleaning workers at retail stores in the Twin Cities are trying to form a union.
Retail cleaning workers who work for companies that are hired to clean Target and other stores in the Twin Cities were on strike Tuesday at a handful of locations. The work stoppage is being coordinated by Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha, (CTUL), a Twin Cities workers center that has been attempting to organize the retail cleaners for the past two years. The labor organization said the workers were waging a one-day strike for what it is alleges are unfair labor practices by the cleaning contractors. The CTUL alleges that employers have, among other things, threatened to fire workers if they signed petitions to organize. The group has had protesters at the downtown Minneapolis Target store as well as, among other places, the …
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