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Amanda and Justin: The Paid Family Leave All Families Deserve

Last summer, paid leave bought Justin and Amanda Aurelius something priceless: time off together with their new baby.

“It’s been the best time,” said Justin. “It’s like winning a lottery ticket, the time with your family, the bonding. We’re very lucky.”

Amanda and Justin: The Paid Family Leave All Families Deserve

Heather and Emily: Keep The Child Development Center Open - and Thriving

Last year, Heather Lynch and Emily Erpelding got some disturbing news.

Heather and Emily: Keep The Child Development Center Open - and Thriving

Walleye Season: A Year-Round Labor of Love

While we’re known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes, Minnesota could just have easily adopted the moniker ‘Land of Abundant and Delicious Walleye,’ and no one this side of the Wisconsin border would have batted an eye.

Walleye Season: A Year-Round Labor of Love

Local 66 Celebrates 100 Years

AFSCME Local 66 encompasses most of St.

Local 66 Celebrates 100 Years

One Local's Direct Dues Challenge

Cindy Ramsey is on fire.

The Local 701 member from Hutchinson, who works as a one-to-one caregiver in a state-run care facility for developmentally disabled adults, has spent the past two months on a mission to sign up her entire Local – all 192 members – for Direct Dues.

One Local's Direct Dues Challenge