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MnIndy video: Union members rally at St. Paul Wal-Mart

By Paul Demko | 06.05.09 | 1:13 pm

Wal-Mart is the most notoriously anti-union corporation in the world. After a five-year hiatus, the United Food and Commercial Workers union is once again seeking to organize the company’s 1.4 million U.S. workers. Yesterday they held a rally at the Wal-Mart store in St. Paul’s Midway neighborhood.

Campaign Notebook: Results

By Joe Bodell | 11.07.07 | 7:45 am

The story today in Minnesota is the same as the national trend:  victory for progressive Democrats, whether against conservative Republicans or against Democrats seen as too moderate for their constituencies.

On a day when Democrats took over the state senate…