More than 14,000 service workers across the University of Minnesota’s campuses could go on strike just as students return for the fall semester. “Our pay isn’t keeping up with inflation, and many of us are forced to work multiple jobs,” said Christy O’Connor, a 26-year senior building and grounds worker in a statement shared by Minnesota Reformer. The union also cited harassment and racial discrimination in their dispute with the U and a company that runs the university’s food service operations.

A 25-year-old Minnesota woman and mother of two is still in ICE custody despite obtaining a release order from a judge. Antonia Aguilar Maldonado’s attorneys say she “is being held at the Kandiyohi County Jail in Willmar, which houses ICE detainees, despite having no criminal record, an active as

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