ST. PAUL, MN (KDAL) – Legislation to extend unemployment benefits for workers at the idled Northshore Mining has passed the Minnesota House.
The bill would offer an additional 26 weeks for 400 laid-off workers.
The Senate has already approved the measure and it now goes to Governor Walz for his signature.
Last May, Cleveland Cliffs announced that operations at Northshore Mining, which operates a mine in Babbitt and a pellet plant in Silver Bay, would temporarily shut down.
The plant will remain idle until at least April of this year and many workers exhausted their regular benefits in November.
The bill will offer the benefit extension retroactive to August of last year.
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