Farmers with tickets to Farm Aid in Minnesota can breathe a sigh of relief after a labor dispute jeopardizing the concert came to a successful conclusion.
About 1,400 maintenance, food service and other university staff represented by Teamsters Local 320, and the University of Minnesota, reached an agreement on Sept. 12 after a one-week strike.
The union and the university “put their differences aside and come to a resolution in order to support the greater good of our university students, faculty and staff, farmers and Minnesota residents,” the two sides said in a Sept. 13 joint statement.