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After more than a week of 24/7 patrols, Mineral County Sheriff Tom Bower and Undersheriff Mike Boone, can finally take a day off. According to Teamsters Local 2 Spokesman Shawn Fontaine, Deputies, dispatchers and detention officers went back to work this morning, June 8, and ended the strike.

County deputies, 911 dispatchers and detention officers in Mineral County are still on strike, despite requests for mediation that were finalized last Friday.

It looks like it will be a long weekend for Mineral County Sheriff Tom Bauer and Undersheriff Mike Boone, who are left to patrol the whole county alone, while the rest of the deputies are out on strike, picketing commissioners for higher wages and a long term contract.

Tomorrow, June 2, Mineral County Commissioners will meet, but the union contract negotiations that have led to a strike by Sheriff’s Deputies, 911 dispatchers and detention officers aren’t even on the agenda.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana's largest mining company has reached a tentative labor agreement with union leaders. Thursday's announcement from Stillwater Mining Co. follows complaints from workers that company executives received pay raises even as they sought to cut miners' pay...

Senate "likely" to finalize its version of the farm bill by Friday.

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Voting is beginning this week on whether to keep Montana State University's faculty union. Ballots are being mailed out Wednesday to 400 tenured and tenure-track professors after more than 30 percent of the professors requested a union decertification vote with the state Department of Labor and Industry.

Nurses at Bozeman Deaconess hospital have been picketing this week over what they see as unfairness in the workplace.

Over 500 Hostess stores are closed in places all over the U.S. including Missoula. The struggle between upper management at Hostess and the worker's union has led to a nation wide halt as the two parties attempt to reach a working deal.