The Minneapolis City Council voted to create the city’s first Labor Standards Board Thursday after years of advocating from worker rights groups and recent backlash from business owners.

The St. James Smithfield plant has been fined $2 million for illegally employing minors in evening and overnight shifts ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Members of service workers unions celebrated Thursday afternoon after the Minneapolis City Council voted to create a new Labor Standards Board.

After a year of backlash, the council easily passed a resolution creating a Labor Standards Board Thursday. Now it goes to ...

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Minneapolis City Council passed the Labor Standards Board during a vote on Thursday. Council members Katie Cashman, Aisha ...

The Minneapolis City Council voted Thursday to create a labor standards board. The new board would advise the City Council on ...

The Minneapolis City Council voted in favor of creating a Labor Standards Board on Thursday, which has drawn ire from the ...

If passed, a board made of 15 people - employers, employees and policy experts - would be created. The board would then ...

The Minneapolis City Council is considering implementing a Labor Standards Board, a move that worries some small business ...

Supporters say that requirement will help the board make a workable policy without steamrolling one group. "The whole purpose ...

Labor union allies believe they'll score a big win for the city's most vulnerable workers on Thursday when the Minneapolis ...