The Southeast Minnesota Area Labor Council represents over 40,000 union members throughout Southeast Minnesota. The mission of the Southeast Minnesota Area Labor Council is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation.

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It’s not much of a shock that lies are popping up in the Republican presidential nomination race. But in Michigan, Mitt Romney is telling one whopper of lie about the UAW, the auto bailout that saved two of the nation’s Big 3 car manufacturers and President Obama. In a nutshell, Romney says Obama should have let Chrysler and GM go bankrupt—that should win him a lot of votes in Michigan today—and Obama instead “gave the companies to the UAW.” Read more >>>

President Obama Begins First Major First Trade Negotiations as Trans-Pacific Partnership Countries Meet In U.S. This Week

Diverse MN Coalition Backs Obama Promise of Trade Reform State Leaders Call for a 'New Deal or No Deal' in TPP Talks

MINNEAPOLIS - Trade negotiators from the U.S. and seven Asian and Latin American countries are meeting in San Francisco this week to begin the first major trade talks since President Obama first took office. These proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) discussions are being closely watched as the forum where the administration will first define a trade policy.

SE MN working families join together to tell Wall Street Banks to help fix the crisis that they helped create.

Hundreds of union activists in Southeast Minnesota have decided to join the fight to Turn Around America. Click here to become a SE MN Area Labor Council E-Activist!

MOTHER SAYS READ A BOOK: "Sit down and read,” urged Mother Jones. “Educate yourself for the coming conflicts." Arm yourself this summer with great labor reads at The Union Shop.

Edgar Paez considers himself fortunate to be able to campaign across the United States this month against the proposed U.S.-Colombia free trade deal. Twenty-two members of his union – assassinated for their activism – weren't so lucky. Employees of Coca-Cola, Nestle and other multinational corporations, "they were killed because they were fighting for workers to be paid better – and that would have resulted in the companies not making as much profit," he said.