Local View: Duluth EPA layoffs raise free-speech, labor-law concerns

Local View: Duluth EPA layoffs raise free-speech, labor-law concerns

The layoffs of Environmental Protection Agency employees in Duluth and elsewhere raise serious concerns under the Constitution and federal labor law (“EPA places 6 Duluth lab staff on leave for signing dissent letter,” July 11). The removals from the workplace at the EPA’s Great Lakes Toxicology and Ecology Division Laboratory in the east end of Duluth came after a number of employees there, reportedly at least six, were among many agency employ…