Local Jobs North seeks to promote good, family-supporting construction jobs for North Dakota and Minnesota workers through research and advocacy. Our goal is to educate the public and policy makers about the social and economic benefits of using local workers and  maintaining safe work environments.

 
We publish a range of in-depth reports on issues impacting workers and the overall construction industry throughout Minnesota and North Dakota.

Here are some of our recent research reports:

•  What They Don’t Know: An Analysis of Worker and Public Safety Hazards at Marathon Petroleum’s St. Paul Park Refinery (2021)  
•  A Transformative Investment: Maximizing the Socioeconomic Benefits of the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Project (2020)
•  Outsourced at Our Expense: The High Cost of Construction Industry Reliance on H-2B Guest Worker Visas (2020)  
•  Saving Coal or Eliminating Jobs? The High Cost of Local Anti-Wind Ordinances (2020)
•  Maximizing The Benefits of Wind Energy Development Through Local Construction Hiring: The Northern Divide Wind Energy Project Case Study (2020) 
•  Catching the Wind 3.0: The impact of local versus non-local hiring practices on wind farms in North Dakota (2019)
•  Catching the Wind 2.0: An Update on Changing Employment Practices in Minnesota’s Wind Energy Industry (2019)