I'm seeing a lot more union activity

For any locals near Minneapolis, I've mentioned elsewhere that the iconic Broadway Pizza was closing down and trying to ensure that their property was used for the benefit of the poor north Minneapolis community. As I drove past that street corner today, the train caboose and building were gone. This union sign was up at the construction site.  I've never heard of AFLCIO-HIT before, but it seems encouraging that they are involved in this project.  Maybe Broadway Pizza succeeded in their wishes to help the local community?  That counts as #ALittleGoodNews!

Ever since you-know-who punched downward from the White House for 4 years, I've been seeing a whole lot more union activity. It's a good thing, too. It'll take people working together to resist entrenched plutocratic systems.  I honestly have no clue what is propping up the USA economic system. By every trend I know, it should have collapsed a few years ago. I'll try to dig into whatever secret accounting is keeping this farce going. Another blog for another day.

Back in October, I saw this truck joining the crew who were building the high-rise apartments for rich people next door to where I work. These are truckers I can support.  (versus those incomprehensible fans of you-know-who)

Today, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers 59 union is still on strike, and they scheduled a demonstration at 1pm at the Minnesota state capitol in St. Paul. I drove out there to be one more body seen in support of their reasonable demands. They also have local demonstrations outside their schools, including this one about 7 blocks (as the crow flies) from my house. It was cold at -8C/17F with an annoying wind. I managed to get this one decent panorama photo and I uploaded a very brief YouTube video.

When I got back home, I used their union action webpage to submit emails to govt showing my support for their union demands.  That's all I know to do to help them out.