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Wed Jan 14, 2026, 11:09 AM

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The organizers of the January 23 day of action hope to build on this momentum, and take mass resistance to the next phase.

“When your coworkers aren’t safe, nobody is safe,” Feben Ghilagaber, a server for Minnesota Wild Bar and Restaurant in the Minneapolis – Saint Paul International Airport and a steward for UNITE HERE Local 17, said a day ahead of the press conference. “It’s a nightmare. When you’re driving, you have to look over your shoulder, to see if somebody’s following you, or somebody’s been stopped. Every move you make, you have to be on guard.

But, she adds, workers are in a strong position to take action. “This country is run by workers.”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/minneapolis-renee-good-ice-shooting-labor-unions

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