Following the November forecast that showed the state of Minnesota having a $7.7 billion budget surplus ahead of the 2022 legislative session, the leaders of the SEIU Minnesota State Council released the following statement:

Essential workers in Minnesota who are members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) praised the introduction of a Minnesota House bill that would provide emergency paid leave

Frontline workers who sacrificed during the COVID-19 pandemic spoke out Wednesday on the need for speedy, fair compensation from a $250 million fund created by the Legislature and administered by a new, nine-member working group.

Groundbreaking agreement that covers nearly 29,000 workers will raise pay floor to $15.25

Legislators reached an agreement to spend $250 million to support essential workers who stepped up and kept our state safe and running during COVID.

Members of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota voted early this month to authorize an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike after months of bargaining and employer offering frontline workers a 0% pay increase in the coming year

Home care workers and clients with SEIU Healthcare Minnesota reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) with the State of Minnesota early Saturday morning, after more than 18 hours of bargaining, for their fourth union contract, including winning a $15.25 minimum wage for all home care workers in the second year of the two-year contract that would begin in July of 2021.

Members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Minnesota State Council, bringing together over 60,000 Minnesotans across race and place, celebrated a massive voter engagement effort and the election wins of pro-worker candidates up and down the ticket.

MSP Airport workers celebrated the passage of a $15 minimum wage by the Metropolitan Airports Commission. The Commissioners voted unanimously to pass the policy, which will see a first increase on January 1st, 2021 with workers reaching $15 on July 1st, 2022, the same time as the Minneapolis minimum wage.

Following rallies Saturday in the streets and Wednesday in front of the Capitol, care workers and clients one step closer to getting long-overdue COVID-19 emergency funding for this critical work