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 MNA’s labor spat with metro hospitals was a strange one- a 24 hour strike, the nurses’ top spokesperson blowing his […]
After insisting for months that patient safety was their primary concern in contract negotiations, the Minnesota Nurses Association caved in their central demand of strict nurse-patient staffing ratios in a seemingly from-out-of-nowhere settlement with 14 Twin Cities hospitals. It averted what had once seemed a certain strike.
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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, spokeswoman Maureen Schriner said the hospitals, which include Allina, Children’s Hospital, Park Nicollet, Fairview, North Memorial and HealthEast, offered to drop cuts to […]
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 institutions that are at the mercy of a poor economy and uncertain healthcare reform laws. Well … not exactly. True, hospitals face a great deal of financial […]
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 pressure on the company. With that said, there’s nothing to indicate the Minnesota Nurses Association’s threat to go nuclear — an open-ended strike […]
Count HealthPartners CEO Mary Brainerd as another healthcare official who neither buys the logic behind the nurses demand for set staffing levels, nor the union’s stated reason for embracing the issue as its rallying cry. Brainerd is hardly a neutral expert. HealthPartners, based in Minneapolis, operates three hospitals, all of them non-union. Yet as leader […]
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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 hospitals, with both groups claiming the role of patient advocate. But one crucial voice has been noticeably silent — the doctors. On the top issue dividing the Minnesota […]
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 Monday night that 84 percent of its members voted to empower the union to call an indefinite walkout. “This is a vote we never wanted to […]
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 Nurses Association launched a 24-hour strike, the largest in the history of the United States. Nurses are seeking a 3 percent annual pay […]
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. Thursday to 7 a.m. Friday, the largest nurses strike in the history of the United States. The union representing nurses has been sparring with […]
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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 don’t seem to be going well. “Things are at a standstill,” said MNA spokesman John Nemo. So, a 24-hour strike is increasingly […]
The clock is now ticking. The union representing 12,000 registered nurses in the Twin Cities says it will launch a one-day strike in two weeks if it cannot reach a deal with six hospital chains in the region for a new three-year contract. At a hastily arranged press conference in St. Paul, the Minnesota Nurses […]