The findings could provide enough evidence for an administrative judge to recommend that June’s vote to reject the union at the New York store be overturned.
Four months into the company’s lockout of 1,300 union workers, 90 percent of union members rejected the company’s offer.
The Minnesota Independent covered issues ranging from American Crystal Sugar’s negotiations with a locked out union to an anti-abortion activist planning to use campaign laws in a run against Rep. Keith Ellison to force Twin Cities media to run graphic anti-abortion ads.
No one was injured, but union supporters speculate that poorly trained replacement workers are responsible for the fires.
Walker said the national focus on his anti-union policies actually brought jobs to Wisconsin.
The company’s new offer makes some compromises on job protection and health care, but the union characterized the changes as “minimal.”
Ellison said politicians in Washington should support Occupy Wall Street and “lead with what we believe for a change.”
The free trade agreements passed with the partial support of many Democrats, although two members of the Minnesota delegation opposed all three agreements.
Protesters will meet for a general assembly at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Minnesota Power Plaza.
The demonstrators were the outgrowth of an Occupy Wall Street movement that started in New York more than three weeks ago.
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