December 19, 2003

Workers at Minneapolis parking garages operated by Municipal Parking, Inc., voted in favor of joining Teamsters Local 120.

Management, which had reneged on a verbal card-check agreement, hired a union-busting law firm and required workers to sit through three two-hour captive meetings. But “after reaching out to immigrant communities, we now have 176 new Teamsters,” said Erik Skoog of Local 120 in St. Paul.

The Teamster-represented garages include public parking facilities owned by the City of Minneapolis.