The legacy of our labor movement in the Twin Cities has been carefully chronicled by a variety of writers during this 100-year anniversary. Embodied in their stories is a roadmap of successes and failures. It's never an easy task to reconstruct what was, at least without substantial embellishment.
Time tends to inflate our accomplishments and minimize our defeats.
Without regard to exactness, suffice to say our future will ultimately be mirrored in the reflection of our past, but let me save that thought for closure. The person best equipped to answer that question has to be Bernie Hesse, currently the night stock manager at Lunds in Highland Village. For five months he engineered the informational picket line at the corner of Grand and Fairview. His success is the stuff legends are made of. Local 789's struggle with Whole Foods.