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 have the full recommendation of the Minnesota Nurses Association union’s bargaining committees, the newspaper also reported .

And those were far from the only newsworthy developments of late related to those who toil daily to make a living, as we head into the holiday set aside just for them, a day to pay tribute to their struggles, successes

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