Years ago, before most Nebraskans had ever heard of Dan Osborn, he won his first election in the state: vice president of the local union representing workers at the Kellogg’s cereal plant in Omaha, where he had worked as an industrial mechanic since 2004.
About three months into his tenure as the labor group’s VP, the president stepped down, Osborn recalled, and the U.S. Navy veteran stepped up.
Two years later — after the pandemic brought grueling hours for a strained workforce and steep hikes in profit for the cereal company — Osborn did “one of the hardest things I’ve had to do,” he recalled at a campaign event this month amid his nonpartisan bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer…