MINNEAPOLIS — Leaders of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, a federation of 1,000 local union units, voted to endorse a one-day walkout and boycott aimed at ending President Trump’s siege of Minnesota. About the siege, Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham said: “They are indiscriminately targeting Minnesotans of color, regardless of citizenship or immigration status,” Many people, she said, are fearful of going to work, shopping for groceries and sending their children to school. Earlier the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, which represents 175 local unions and 80,000 union members, endorsed the ICE Out of MN project. The Federation president, Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou, said some union workers have been detained or are afraid to go to work: “They’ve had to make gut-wrenching, life-altering choices about whether or not they’re going to go to work, so they can put food on the table, or whether they’re going to stay home, and stay safe, and stay alive.” State nursing and higher-ed unions also have organized to participate.
