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Teachers at Duluth listening session accuse local union leadership of conflicts of interest; union critic disputed
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Two teachers at a Duluth Public Schools listening session alleged the Duluth Federation of Teachers (DFT) violated federal labor rules and has long-standing conflicts of interest tied to investments and a retirement-fund property sale; a fellow teacher disputed those charges and called the criticism "propaganda."
Two teachers at a Duluth Public Schools listening session on December raised allegations that the Duluth Federation of Teachers (DFT) has longstanding conflicts of interest tied to its governance and investments.
"My local public sector teachers union, the Duluth Federation of Teachers, has a serious conflict of interest," said Steven Sandberg, a special-education teacher and member of the union. Sandberg told the board the DFT's internal election committee had privately acknowledged violations of federal labor laws and that the committee and leadership had been violating those laws for seven years. He said the union manages "roughly 4,700,000 in assets" and traced a…
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