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Minnesota nurses hold key advantages over hospitals in looming strike
With less than a week to go before 12,000 Minnesota nurses plan to strike, negotiations between the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) and six hospital chains in the Twin Cities for a new contract...
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Minnesota nurses set to strike Twin Cities hospitals Thursday morning
The picket signs are printed and neatly stacked. The replacement nurses have been hired. It’s on. Barring a last-minute miracle, 12,000 nurses throughout the Twin Cities will strike from 7 a.m....
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Thousands of Minnesota nurses strike Twin Cities hospitals
Donning bright red, union T-shirts and waving “We care for you” signs, 12,000 Minnesota nurses walked off the job Thursday. Unable to reach a contract with six metro hospital chains, the Minnesota...
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Minnesota nurses overwhelmingly approve open-ended strike
Twin Cities nurses overwhelmingly authorized their union to launch an open-ended strike if it can’t reach a contract agreement with metro hospitals. The Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) said late...
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Minnesota doctors silent on possible nurses strike against hospitals
With Twin Cities nurses now poised to strike indefinitely against local hospitals, the debate has descended into the familiar roles of hardworking, resourceful nurses versus financially besieged...
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HealthPartners CEO: Nurses’ demand for patient ratios misguided
Mary Brainerd, president and CEO, HealthPartners Count HealthPartners CEO Mary Brainerd as another healthcare official who neither buys the logic behind the nurses demand for set staffing levels, nor...
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Minnesota nurses up the ante: Strike date set for July 6
Normally, I don’t read too much into strike authorization votes. Having been a union member myself, the vote is almost a required ritual in hard labor negotiations, a tactic designed to maximize...
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High on ambition, low on cash, Twin Cities hospitals face choices
Maple Grove Hospital Second only to nurses claiming they will strike solely to save patients’ lives, the most repeated talking point in the Twin Cities these days is: Hospitals are besieged...
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Efforts to break hospital/nurses stalemate fail; Strike imminent
Twin Cities hospitals late Tuesday offered a revised contract proposal to the nurses union, which promptly rejected it, setting the stage for a protracted strike set for next week. In an e-mail,...
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Minnesota nurses, hospitals reach surprise settlement; likely avoid strike
Updated: 7:26 p.m. The looming threat of a nursing strike in Minnesota has disappeared after the state’s nurses association gave in on the critical issue of staffing ratios. After insisting for months...
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Some (hopefully) final thoughts on the averted Minnesota nurses strike
If all goes to plan, the 12,000 nurses of the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) will approve today a new three year contract with Twin Cities hospitals. Life will return to normal. Or will it? The...
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Minnesota nurses officially ratify new three year contract with hospitals
Minnesota nurses approved a new three year contract with Twin Cities hospitals, averting a costly strike that could have indefinitely forced thousands of patients to seek care elsewhere. The Minnesota...
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Duluth, Minnesota nurses authorize one-day strike
Here we go again. Less than two months after Twin Cities hospitals and the 12,000 nurses narrowly avoided a strike, 1,300 nurses in Duluth Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to approve a one-day walkout to...
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Mediators call back Duluth nurses, executives to bargaining table
Federal mediators have called nurses and business executives at two Minnesota, hospitals back to the bargaining table next week. Earlier this week, 1,300 nurses in Duluth overwhelmingly voted to...
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Minnesota nurses’ union: Duluth strike ‘imminent’
The union representing 1,300 nurses in Duluth warned hospitals that a strike was “imminent” after it said talks brokered by a federal mediator had broken down. In a video message posted on the...
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Minnesota nurses, Duluth hospital reach contract agreement
The union representing 400 nurses in Duluth said Wednesday morning it has agreed to a tentative new contract with St. Luke’s Hospital, averting a one-day strike threatened by the union. Details of the...
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Duluth nurses set strike date against St. Mary’s Medical Center
As nurses at St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota prepare to vote on a tentative contract agreement next week, their counterparts at St. Mary’s Medical Center are also knee deep in preparations-...
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Nurses reach tentative agreement with Duluth hospital group
The union representing 1,000 nurses employed by SMDC Health System has reached a tentative contract with the hospital group in Duluth. In a blog post, the Minnesota Nurses Association says it will...
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Nurses okay contract with Duluth hospital
One down, one to go. Duluth nurses overwhelmingly approved a new three contract with St. Luke’s Hospital, the same day their counterparts at SDMC Health System reached a tentative deal. About 96...
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Minnesota nurses union really doesn’t like Tom Horner
I’ll say this about the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) — the union sure knows how to hold a grudge. Last week, the MNA blasted Tom Horner, calling the Independence Party candidate for governor and...
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