Our View: Good times or bad, Labor Day a reminder of how far workers have come

Our View: Good times or bad, Labor Day a reminder of how far workers have come

The days ahead of this Labor Day weekend featured labor news aplenty for workers and others in Duluth and the Northland. Both Duluth firefighters and nurses in three Essentia Health-Duluth Clinic buildings reached new deals. A three-year contract for firefighters was approved by Duluth city councilors Monday after their previous collective-bargaining agreement expired last year, as the News Tribune reported. For the nurses, tentative agreements …