Awood Center Executive Director Abdirahman Muse: "People need to know where to go and how to fight back when they’re mistreated or face discrimination in the workplace." MinnPost’s reporters work hard ...
It was 11 days before Christmas in 2018, and Amazon’s warehouse in Shakopee, Minnesota, was operating at full tilt. At the rear of the facility, waves of semi trucks backed up to a long row of loading ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The Awood Center, a Minneapolis-based organization of Black ...
The Awood Center provides East African workers education on labor rights, as well as helping draft legislation, including the Warehouse Worker Protection Act passed earlier this year. Awood in 2020 ...
A Minnesota-based nonprofit focused on aiding Somalis and other East Africans is hiring someone to follow immigration agents and prevent them from making arrests. The Awood Center did not respond to ...
Labor rights activists say Amazon's plans to shutter its sort center in Shakopee and terminate hundreds of jobs is retaliation for workers' organizing efforts — a claim that's rejected by the online ...