2025 Legislative Priorities

Minnesota's future depends on bipartisan action to create family-supporting jobs, ensure worker safety, and build lasting infrastructure that serves all Minnesotans.

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Fix Minnesota’s Infrastructure & Create Family-Supporting Careers

Pass a robust local infrastructure jobs bill | Protect and grow dedicated funding for roads and bridges | Fix water infrastructure and accelerate replacement of lead service lines | Advance permitting reforms that remove barriers to progress and job-creation

Ensure Public Investments Produce Good Jobs & Quality Work

Safeguard taxpayer dollars and living wages with prevailing wage protections | Help broadband grant recipients use workforce best practices

Support Suicide Prevention in the Construction Industry

Promote mental health awareness and resources

Download explainers linked below for a deeper dive into LIUNA Minnesota and North Dakota's legislative priorities.

 

Prevent Exploitation on Publicly-Financed Housing Projects

Subsidizing Abuse by NorthStar Policy Action

Replace Lead Service Lines

Transformational Funding for Water and Wastewater Infrastructure

 

 

 

Legislative Updates

We’ve Got Your Back - Under the Hard Hat Too

September 4, 2025By Joel Smith, President and Business Manager of LIUNA Minnesota and North Dakota This September marks National Suicide Prevention Month — a time when our entire country focuses on...

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Minnesota's Infrastructure Union Celebrates Passage of Bipartisan Construction Jobs Bill and Pro-Worker Priorities

Saint Paul, MN – Today, Joel Smith, President and Business Manager of LIUNA Minnesota and North Dakota released the following statement after the Minnesota Legislature passed a local infrastructure...

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Infrastructure Union, Contractors and Greater Minnesota Advocates Launch Campaign for Infrastructure Investment

Coalition Demands Special Session Action After Years of Legislative Inaction SAINT PAUL, MN – Today, a coalition representing workers, contractors and communities across Greater Minnesota launched a...

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Legislature Fails Minnesota Workers Again: Infrastructure Union Demands Action After Second Year Without Bonding Bill

Saint Paul, MN – Today, Joel Smith, President and Business Manager of LIUNA Minnesota and North Dakota, released the following statement after the Minnesota Legislature failed to pass a critical...

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