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UAW strike expands to include Minnesota, Wisconsin facilities

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UAW President Shawn Fain called on workers to walk out of 38 General Motors and Stellantis plants across 20 states on Friday afternoon.

MINNEAPOLIS — An expanded strike by the United Auto Workers union is now set to impact plants in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

On Friday, UAW President Shawn Fain called on workers to walk out of 38 General Motors and Stellantis plants in 20 states at noon eastern Friday after the union and carmakers failed to make significant progress in their ongoing contract negotiations. The UAW’s contract expired at midnight on Sept. 14, and workers walked out of a Ford assembly plant near Detroit, a GM factory in Missouri, and a Jeep plant run by Stellantis in Ohio.

The latest strike update primarily impacts GM and Stellantis, who Fain said have rejected all of the union’s job security proposals, profit-sharing proposals and proposals to convert temps.

Locations in Minnesota and Wisconsin included in the strike are:

  • GM: Hudson Parts Distribution in Hudson, Wisconsin
  • Stellantis: Plymouth, Minnesota
  • Stellantis: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Fain said Ford was spared additional strikes because the company has met some of the union’s demands during negotiations over the past week.

Plants that are already in strike will remain on strike. According to the Associated Press, up until Friday, the initial strike involved about 13,000 of the union’s 146,000 members.

Other Stellantis locations included in Friday’s strike expansion are located in Marysville, Center Line, Warren, Auburn Hills, Romulus and Streetsboro, Michigan; Commerce City, Colorado; Naperville, Illinois; Ontario, California; Beaverton, Oregon; Morrow, Georgia; Winchester, Virginia; Carrollton, Texas; Tappan, New York; and Mansfield, Massachusetts.

GM plants called to strike are in Pontiac, Belleville, Ypsilanti, Burton, Swartz Creek and Lansing, Michigan; West Chester, Ohio; Aurora, Colorado; Bolingbrook, Illinois; Reno, Nevada; Rancho Cucamonga, California; Roanoke, Texas; Martinsburg, West Virginia; Brandon, Mississippi; Charlotte, North Carolina; Memphis, Tennessee; and Lang Horne, Pennsylvania.

“As promised, we’re expecting to stand up strike in response to the lack of response in bargaining with General Motors and Stellatnis,” Fain said Friday. “We will shut down parts distribution until those two companies come to their sense and come to the table with a serious offer.”

The UAW union is seeking big raises and better benefits from General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, and want to get back concessions that the workers made years ago, when the companies were in financial trouble.

According to the Associated Press, the union is asking for 36% raises in general pay over four years — a top-scale assembly plant worker gets about $32 an hour now. The union also demanded an end to varying tiers of wages for factory jobs; a 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay; the restoration of traditional defined-benefit pensions for new hires who now receive only 401(k)-style retirement plans; and a return of cost-of-living pay raises, among other benefits.

This is a developing story. KARE 11 will provide more details as new information becomes available.

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Ruff Start Rescue helps animals abandoned after hurricanes

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PRINCETON, Minn. — As many families fell on hard times due to hurricanes Helene and Milton, their pets have suffered too. 

Ruff Start Rescue, headquartered in Princeton, Minn., rescued 24 animals from areas in Tennessee and North Carolina that were hit by hurricanes. Azure Davis, the founder and executive director, visited the KARE 11 studio to share more about these animals and how you can help. 

For more information on Ruff Start Rescue and to look at adoptable animals, click here. 



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Grand jury indicts alleged shooter in tobacco store killings

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The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office says 26-year-old Maleek Conley was indicted on 13 charges in a shooting that killed two and wounded two others on Dec. 3, 2023.

MINNEAPOLIS — The man accused in a shooting that killed two at a Minneapolis tobacco shop now faces two charges of first-degree murder after being indicted by a Hennepin County grand jury.

Maleek Jabril Conley, 26, was already charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the shooting that occurred on Dec. 3, 2023. An employee of Royal Cigar & Tobacco in Dinkytown told responding Minneapolis police officers that a verbal altercation involving a group of men escalated into a fistfight and then gunfire. 

Two men, identified as Jamartre Sanders and Bryson Haskell, were killed in the shooting. Two others were shot but survived. Conley was later identified as the gunman by surveillance video. 

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Friday that a grand jury indicted Conley on 13 charges related to the tobacco store shooting, including first-degree premeditated murder, two counts of first-degree premeditated attempted murder, four counts of second-degree intentional murder, two counts of attempted second-degree intentional murder, and one count of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon. 


“This was a brutal crime,” Moriarty said in a released statement. “Mr. Conley fired at the victims at close range, killing two people and wounding two others. I am grateful for the service of the grand jury in moving us closer to appropriate accountability for Mr. Conley’s shocking conduct.”

Conley remains in custody at the Hennepin County jail. 



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Colorado farm recalls onions amid E. coli concerns

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The recall of yellow onions from Taylor Farms comes after an outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders.

COLORADO, USA — A food service supplier has issued a recall for onions from a Colorado Springs Taylor Farms facility due to possible E. coli contamination, according to a letter provided to 9NEWS by the restaurant chain Illegal Pete’s.

The move by US Foods comes after an outbreak of E. coli that has sickened dozens of people and is blamed for the death of one person in Mesa County. According to health officials, it has been linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders. The outbreak’s exact source is unknown, but the focus has been on slivered onions and the beef patties specifically used by the chain for those burgers.

McDonald’s has stopped serving the burgers.

The letter sent on Wednesday from US Food urged its customers, including Illegal Pete’s to immediately stop using the affected products.

RELATED: Food safety attorney: Lawsuits coming against McDonald’s following Colorado E. coli outbreak

It indicated that the products included were yellow onions from Taylor Farms that were either whole or diced.  The recalled onions came from a Taylor Farms facility in Colorado, a U.S. Foods spokesperson said. 

In a statement, Illegal Pete’s said they’re taking the issue seriously and are following all of the instructions in the letter.

They also noted that they don’t use a diced/ sliced white onion product that has been identified as a possible source of E. coli. The company said Taylor Farms issued a blanket recall from a certain lots.


The Centers for Disease Control said as of Tuesday that 49 people in 10 states have gotten sick, including 26 illnesses and one death in Colorado. Nine people have been sickened in Nebraska.

At least 10 of Colorado’s cases were reported in Mesa County in western Colorado, according to the county health department spokeswoman.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said the 26 people who have gotten sick in Colorado live in nine counties: Arapahoe, Chaffee, El Paso, Gunnison, Larimer, Mesa, Routt, Teller and Weld. They did not necessarily eat at McDonald’s locations in the counties where they live, the health department said. 

RELATED: McDonald’s tries to reassure customers after deadly E. coli outbreak

The CDC said 10 people across the affected states have been hospitalized. The outbreak also includes a child hospitalized with severe kidney complications. 

Everyone interviewed said they ate at McDonald’s before getting sick and specifically mentioned eating a Quarter Pounder hamburger, according to the CDC. The agency said infections were reported between Sept. 27 and Oct. 11. 




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