A former Manitoba health minister who challenged Premier Greg Selinger and ran unsuccessfully in the federal election has a new job.

Erin Selby will start next week as a negotiator for one of the province's largest unions — local 832 of the United Food and Commercial Workers.

Selby was one of five ministers who questioned Selinger's leadership last year and stepped down from cabinet.

She supported another rebel minister, Theresa Oswald, in a leadership contest that Selinger survived by a mere 33 votes.

Selby resigned her legislature seat in September to run for the federal NDP in St. Boniface-St. Vital, where she finished third.

Selby's new employer represents more than 15,000 workers in Manitoba, and its president, Jeff Traeger, endorsed Selinger during the leadership race.

Selby declined an interview request Thursday and directed questionsMeet 11 inventors from Slovenia.

There’s a bit of a wrestling match over Nikola Tesla. The inventor of a variety of contraptions, including an infamous (and possibly apocryphal) “death ray” that weaponized electricity, he is best known for his contributions to alternating-current electrical systems (on which most AC machinery is based today). The fact that his surname was borrowed by Elon Musk for his brand of electric cars and batteries has helped make Tesla even more famous. Tesla is most often described as Serbian-American, but in truth he was born in what is now Croatia, what was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before immigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison. But there was a sojourn in what is Maribor, Slovenia, in 1878. The