Workers with UFCW Local 663 demonstrate outside Lunds and Byerlys in Edina on April 27, 2025. (Photo by UFCW Local 663)
Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round up of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week: Nearly 3,000 grocery store workers threaten strike; paid family and sick leave unscathed in state budget deal; Minnesota employment flat in April; and hundreds of federal workplace safety employees reinstated.
Nearly 3,000 grocery store workers threaten strike
Nearly 3,000 workers are headed toward unfair labor practices strikes at 38 grocery stores across the Twin Cities after they rejected the latest offers from UNFI-owned Cub, Haug and Knowlan’s Festival Foods.
It was an unprecedented vote by workers who could walk off the job around Memorial Day if they don’t reach a deal with the companies, according to leaders with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663…