We cannot understand the meaning of our Democracy without a study of the Labor Movement. For a century and a half, Minnesota workers, native born and immigrant, women and men, skilled and unskilled, blue collar and white collar, people of color and white, have organized themselves to secure and expand their positions within our democracy. Learn how they struggled for citizenship and the right to vote; demanded the right to organize and engage in collective bargaining; organized unions to protect their rights at work; and organized politically to shape public policy.