The Minneapolis educators’ union won a historic contract just over a week ago. The victory was the product of years of rank-and-file reform efforts as well as workplace and community organizing that bridged occupational and racial divides.

Under the second Trump administration, unions are under assault from many directions — from a dysfunctional National Labor Relations Board, to new attacks on public sector collective bargaining rights, to the cancellation of massive union construction projects, to the repression of immigrant workers. Yet while many unions have hunkered down to ride out the wave of reaction, some are quickly recognizing that the new landscape requires new thinking, new doctrine, and better practice.

The deal just struck by the Minneapolis Federation of Educators (MFE) i

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