...in the West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan district reopened Friday despite a strike by 230 bus drivers, food service workers and teachers' assistants. The workers took to the picket lines Thursday after failing to agree with the district...

More than a dozen Brainerd School District food service employees went before the Brainerd School Board Monday to state concerns about their two-year employment agreement that ends June 30.

...and taking some $20 million per year out of our local economy. There are doctors, nurses, laundry workers, food service workers, building maintenance employees and many others. These are good jobs that cannot be replaced in the community...

...satisfaction climbed by 11 percent, surveys found. At Unity, "patients are loving the service," said Diane Parkin, a food service worker who delivers the trays. Even on the children's wards, "nothing is left on their plates," she said.

...school's lowest-paid workers. Results of strike votes by units representing 1,800 clerical workers and 1,300 food service workers, janitors, mechanics and other employees were scheduled to be announced Friday. Bruininks also laid out priorities...

...increase in students eating lunch at school, school administrators believe the lunch lines will move quickly because food service workers will no longer accept cash transactions. All lunches will be prepaid using the district's online Family Access...

...of the Brainerd School District's Beginning Teacher Support System program. Walseth praised the district's food service workers for their efforts in getting students fed while the food service computer system had technical difficulties during...

...employee salaries and benefits. The district employs 500 teachers, 230 educational assistants, 56 custodians, 57 food service workers, 61 secretaries, 27 administrators, four interpreters and 25 other employees for a total of about 960 district...

...School Board Monday approved new employment contracts for 2006-08 with the district's educational assistants, food service workers and deaf interpreters. Negotiating teams from the district and the unions involved met June 13-15 for contract...

...had the highest median tenure at 5.2 years in January 2006. Among employees working in service occupations, food service workers had the lowest median tenure at 1.8 years. An August 2006 longitudinal study examined the number of jobs that...