Neither union leaders nor company officials would discuss details of the tentative agreement today, saying that they wanted to wait until after striking workers vote on the plan on Thursday.
Union officials said the striking workers voted on Monday to ratify the deal, 185 to 62. "Nobody wins in a strike," said Mike LeBerth, president of the union local in Williamson.
More striking still, the vote followed unemployment and income.
A month after the biggest strike by state workers in Minnesota's history, members of the two striking unions have voted overwhelmingly to approve a tentative agreement with the state, union leaders said.
In the mining towns of Nottinghamshire where I am from, the debate again is about Brexit, and even former striking miners are voting leave.
Still, as Columbia University's Andrew Gelman points out, the really striking red-blue voting divide is among the affluent: High-income residents of red states are overwhelmingly Republican; high-income residents of blue states only mildly more Republican than their poorer neighbors.
Still, as a statement, the contempt vote was striking, and so was the response.
Failure to enforce a 100-year-old worldwide norm against use of chemical weapons could make U.S. troops vulnerable, he added, saying that a vote against striking Syria could have "very direct consequences for our men and women".
As you can see, we'll have an entire week or more to discuss the morality and realpolitik of striking Syria, because no vote will happen before -- at the earliest -- next Monday.
