Just a little bit about my individual support for this social cause.

So I thought that a little bit of background information on myself, this blog's writer [Hannah], might be fitting. Yes, it seems fitting to explain why I support these issues. So here is some basic information about me, and why I feel the way I do.

In regard to my location, I've had the privilege of spending all my life in the "built Union strong" state of Minnesota. Right now, I live [just barely] on the East Side of Saint Paul, with my boyfriend and our two cats.

The boyfriend & I.

Mizzz Carlita Consuela Kitty.


 
Ralph E. Weber.

I am a full-time student and employee, and part-time intern.
As I've grown older and more politically aware, democracy has become my muse.

Permanent fixtures on our East Side balcony doors.

I'm fascinated by the way our representative democracy works-and doesn't work. I'm interested in the direction our state and country is moving in and aim to provide timely information, relevant content & open discussion for those in support of the Labor Movement, Unions & citizen activism.

Who me? No, I don't even have a Union-membership card. Wish I did-I wouldn't have to use my Union father's health insurance... but alas, I don't. I'm a student, working a couple jobs, just looking toward graduation.

I collect the contents of this blog because organizations of real [not corporate] people, working for real [not corporate] people, should remain an important, elevated aspect of our democracy. I hope to be a member of a labor organization some day. I plan on happily paying my dues [whether or not a Minnesota state-law says I've got to] and enjoying every last vacation check cent I'm afforded. I want to execute the social collective's ability to bargain for our wages and benefits. Yes, I want to enjoy those benefits and seek to proliferate their breadth. That's why I "do this blog." Because if I don't, these things may not be there for me.


-h.

My boyfriend's work truck in our apartment's parking lot. Brothers Fire is a Union sprinkler-fitting outfit, based in Elk River, MN.