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@midwest.socialhttps://minnesotareformer.com/2024/02/02/trader-joes-argues-national-labor-relations-board-is-unconstitutional-and-other-labor-news/
Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round-up of labor news from Minnesota and beyond. This week: Trader Joe’s launches raid on New Deal; Minnesota lawmakers receive public option estimates; Minneapolis and Rochester teachers protest on ‘Walkout Wednesdays’; Twin Cities janitors to take strike vote; Forces align to kill U.S. Steel deal; and […]
https://apnews.com/article/anton-tony-lazzaro-gop-operative-sex-trafficking-e4fc3e85fe5597b645e74d921246b963
A formerly well-connected GOP donor convicted of giving teenage girls gifts, alcohol and money in exchange for sex has been sentenced to 21 years in prison on sex trafficking charges in Minnesota.
https://bsky.app/profile/gwenners.bsky.social/post/3kkfo4vidr22v
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/02/01/shaping-minnesotas-cannabis-industry-how-regulations-will-be-set-and-where-the-process-stands
Expungements of low-level marijuana convictions are delayed due to technical problems. Meanwhile, the state continues its search for a cannabis director, and the industry’s rules won’t be adopted until early next year.
https://www.startribune.com/new-public-health-insurance-could-reach-100000-minnesotans-state-estimates/600340373/
DFL leaders want a new public option. But Republicans, hospitals and insurers are opposed.
https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/02/01/republicans-smeared-ilhan-omar-over-a-faulty-translation-heres-what-she-really-said/
Neither of the Reformer’s translations show she said “Somalians first, Muslims second.”
https://m.startribune.com/after-taking-a-pause-some-minnesota-corporations-quietly-resumed-donations-to-election-objecting-candidates/600339016/?clmob=y&c=n&clmob=y&c=n
At least eight major companies with headquarters in Minnesota have given more than $400,000 to members of Congress who disputed Electoral College results in the last presidential election.
https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/01/26/why-did-unionization-decline-in-minnesota/
Unions are enjoying the most robust public support in nearly six decades and winning double digit pay raises for their members, yet the share of the American workforce that is unionized remains stuck at historic lows. In Minnesota, union membership ticked down nearly a full percentage point from 14.2% to 13.3% in 2023, inching closer […]
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/worthington-journalists-car-is-vandalized-after-coverage-of-school-flag-controversy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/03/native-tribe-upper-sioux-agency-us-dakota-war
Upper Sioux Agency state park in Minnesota, where bodies of those killed after US-Dakota war are buried, to be transferred