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Instead, he would average 70 hours a “We are puzzled why the NLRB is
week (without overtime pay) in the sum- involved with this because we have no
mer, and only five to 10 hours a week in disputes with any of these corporations
the winter. He spent half the year sitting or any of their employees. We believe that
Feds find Menards saves big money on his hands because his contract pro- ultimately the charge will be dismissed
hibited him from hauling for other big because it lacks any merit.”
by hosing its drivers
companies. Any time Menards called to Goldstein calls it a red herring because
make a delivery on short notice, he’d have Menards’ contracts with “various cor-
Menards truckers aren’t tech- benefits of being an employee, but they to drop everything or get cut on the spot. porations” have nothing to do with
nically employees. They’re have all the control aspects.” He missed his son’s sixth birthday that way. its contracts with independent truck-
“independent contractors,” Last week the National Labor Relations No other company has treated him that ers. —SUSAN DU
a designation that allows Board weighed testimony from both truck- badly, the driver
Menards to avoid paying for healthcare ers and the company, concluding the Eau says.
and other benefits. Claire home improvement chain had again Menards issued Dan Ewald, a
54-year-old
But while Menards shorts benefits, it’s violated labor law by misclassifying its driv- a statement in
delivery driver
very good about loading up restrictions. ers. In short, it was paying them like con- response to the
from Wisconsin
The truckers aren’t allowed to haul for tractors, but treating them like employees. NLRB finding:
competitors for up to a year after ending (Menards also ran afoul of the feds last year “Our corpo-
their contract. If they turn down a job for making people sign mandatory arbitra- ration has con-
because the pay isn’t worth the time and tion agreements as a term of employment.) tracts with vari-
the gas, they’re not given more work. And If Menards doesn’t settle and make ous corporations
they’re forced to sign away the right to amends this time, the NLRB will take to deliver goods
participate in class-action lawsuits. the company to court. to our custom-
“They work when Menards wants them According to one Minnesota driver ers. These cor-
to work,” says Seth Goldstein of the Office who declined to be named because he’s porations include
and Professional Employees International set to testify, Menards “promised you the FedEx, UPS, the
Union. “They have to buy a special truck sun and the moon to get you under that United States
that Menards has designed, so once they’re contract, and once you were under it, you Postal Service...
done with these trucks, they’re worth- were under it. But we never made what and more than 500
less. They basically don’t have any of the they projected.” other corporations.
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Suburban Civil War
Sleepy Orono wakes up to a tough new mayor
C
ity leaders in Orono don’t have ated” prior to Walsh’s ascendancy. But the As with the president-elect, it can be
a lot to worry about. Except for new mayor prefers getting things done hard to tell where Walsh’s business ends
other people’s yards. the combustible way. “If you’re asking if and his government service begins. Recent
In recent years, the chic west- he has attempted to intimidate me, and to ads for Denny Walsh, developer — “look-
ern suburb has seen homeowners do jail intimidate staff, the answer is yes.” ing out for your real estate needs, at any
time for a messy front lawn and an illegal Collegiality retreated further when price” — prominently list his city council Mike Mullen
wind turbine. Walsh decided to run for mayor. The Ivy job, as if this made him better qualified
A year ago, the hottest debate before League-educated McMillan fit the city’s for your business.
the city council was whether they should profile: conservative on property taxes and Walsh’s offer to find his own “guys” for A few days later, Walsh filed a data prac-
crack down on “living walls,” trees or plants bright green on the environment. (Lakefront city projects becomes more unnerving in tices act request on his foes, asking for all of
that obstructed a neighbor’s view of Lake property’s no good when the water turns the absence of an experienced profes- their emails during the six weeks before that
Minnetonka. It was too controversial, and sional staff. Following the election, City meeting. Loftus called the mayor-elect and
the motion was tabled. Administrator Jessica Loftus and City asked if there was something in particular
People here shell out a lot to look at the Planner Mike Gaffron, perhaps the two he was looking for. Maybe she could spare
lake. An analysis found an average price Walsh has “guys” most important government employees him (and city employees) the trouble of
of $1.4 million for a four-bedroom, two- in town, both resigned. combing thousands of emails.
bathroom house in Orono — ninth highest for all kinds of Loftus held her position for almost seven She didn’t get any answers. Neither will
in the country. years; Gaffron was on the job for decades. you. Asked for an interview, Walsh said he
Oronoans don’t ask much. Keep taxes construction jobs. Insiders say Walsh forced them out, though had a “busy work day” and would answer
low — Orono’s are as low as they go in others say they preemptively quit on their questions by email. He didn’t respond to
Hennepin County — and leave them alone. temperamental new boss. those either.
So it’s curious that a land of prosperity Gaffron declined comment. Loftus’ The real question for Orono is whether
has become home to pugilistic politics. And a chemical hue.) “public reasoning” is that she wants to Denny Walsh will be any more magnani-
the blame seems to fall to one guy: Den- Walsh flooded the suburb with campaign spend more time with her three young mous now that he’s running the show.
nis Walsh, soon to be Orono’s new mayor. ads that were “mostly personal,” says former children. She acknowledges that phrase Orono’s absurdly healthy housing stock
Over his two years on the city council, Mayor Jim White, outspending McMillan means there’s also a “private reasoning,” is actually a problem, as far as the Met
Walsh, a real estate developer, built a repu- seven to one. though she demurred on what it might be. Council is concerned. The city of 7,000
tation as a micromanager, needling Mayor Perhaps even more effective were pub- Walsh might still figure it out. Last month, is supposed to generate more than 300
Lili McMillan and city employees about lications like “Orono Watch 4 U,” which the council rejected his proposal to raise new “affordable housing” units by 2020,
purchasing details. appeared anonymously in mailboxes and a road tax levy by 8 percent. McMillan no mean feat in a place where empty lots
At one meeting, Walsh was pissed that depicted Walsh’s enemies with black bars and two others said that increase was too routinely sell for six figures.
staff hadn’t alerted him to a public works blocking their eyes. Walsh has repeatedly sudden and unnecessary, since the city Its leaders on that quest will be rookie
project up for bid. As a developer, Walsh accused his foes of plotting in secrecy. could borrow money, low-interest, as it council members and brand-new staff, all of
has “guys” for all kinds of construction Levang and McMillan suspect he was had always done. whom will answer to Denny Walsh and his
jobs. He wanted a tip off when they’d be behind the attack, but couldn’t prove it. The stakes were rather minimal — about “guys.” For the sake of the city, it’s probably
eligible for city business. All three candidates targeted lost their half of Orono’s roads are privately owned best that they — like departing staff — don’t
“I feel like I’m talking to my children who elections, including McMillan. — but the egos weren’t. always do what the mayor says. ç
won’t ever do what I tell them to do,” he Walsh undoubtedly drew from a voting Walsh took losing badly, calling the vote
told the city administrator and engineer. pool that fell for another brash real estate one “last shot” by outgoing officials, who
Councilwoman Lizz Levang can’t recall developer. His 2,551 votes were one fewer were now “looking to handicap the people [email protected]
staffers being “publicly shamed and humili- than Orono gave Donald Trump. of Orono.” Follow Mike on Twitter: @mikemullen_
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Jeff Schafer leaves a
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then walks out of the Mille Lacs Band
of Ojibwe Police Department in Onamia
A 200-year-old promise, a bitter boundary dispute,
and gets into a black, unmarked SUV on a
sunny Thursday afternoon in November.
and a powerless police department in Mille Lacs
He has everything he needs to do his
job as a patrol officer today — except
B Y D E E N A W I N T E R the authority to do it.
“Today is check day,” he says, or
“per cap day.” It’s the day tribal band
members get a cut of the revenue from
Grand Casino, across the highway from
Mille Lacs Band of
the police department. Normally, that
Ojibwe Interim Police
Chief Sara Rice says means an uptick in activity for police
a policing dispute as members decide how to spend their
with the county has monthly stipend. On a recent “per cap
impacted public safety
day,” four people overdosed.
on a reservation
Schafer drives northwest, through the
already grappling with
a heroin epidemic. wooded, hilly reservation that hugs the
southern side of the serene, 200-square-
mile Mille Lacs Lake.
“Most are the Boyd family out here,”
Schafer says as he drives past a cluster
of well-spaced, decent houses. Families
tend to stick together on the reservation,
he explains.
“There’s Linda,” he says as he slows
to wait for a Grand Casino shuttle bus
to pick up a woman and take her to the
casino. Band members can get a free
ride to the casino, which, technically,
they own. Elderly band members tend
to use the shuttle the most, Schafer says.
He drives south to where land has
been cleared and roads built to make
way for 146 homes the band plans to
build for members. It looks like a typical
nascent suburb, with plenty of space
between the lots. East of here, the older
tribal housing is much tighter, more
like a typical residential area. Officer
Schafer prefers the space.
“The more they separate houses, the
less problems between neighbors,” he
says.
There’s less fighting now than when
he began patrolling the reservation in
2002.
“When I started, everyone smoked
a little weed and drank,” he says. He
ran from call to call to call his first five
years on the job. “We barely had time
to write reports back then.”
He would park his patrol car at an
intersection overlooking the older
neighborhood, just waiting for the
next dispatch.
Now the reservation is dealing with
a heroin epidemic. The addicts are less
interested in fighting. They get what
Schafer calls “the nod,” where their head
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Since July he’s been patrolling, but not For all its messy consequences, the land
really policing, with no end in sight. fight is fairly simple: The band considers
the reservation to be 61,000 acres created
II. by an 1855 treaty between the Chippewa
In late July, in the Mille Lacs County and U.S. The county sees it as just 4,000
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