WCCO TV reports: “HealthPartners employees in Stillwater voted to authorize an unfair labor practices strike, their union announced Monday.” A group of around 80 health care workers “voted to authorize the strike with an 84% approval rate. The vote will allow the group to call for a strike after giving their employers a 10-day notice.”

WDIO says: Minnesota DFL Sen. Tina Smith joined over a dozen other senators in writing a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator “asking that workers at the Duluth EPA Lab be reinstated after being put on administrative leave for signing a ‘Declaration of Dissent’ about the agency’s leadership.” The senators argued in the letter that the employees are protected under the First Amendment.

Other Minnesota lawmakers are focusing their ef

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