Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2001/05/page/4/)
Representatives of the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA), Minnesota Hospital and Healthcare Partnership (MHHP) and hospital officials from the seven metropolitan systems have agreed to meet jointly to negotiate major economic issues common to all bargaining tables.
Nearly 3,000 parents, students and teachers rallied on the steps of the State Capitol to show their support for public education, Saturday, May 5. Undeterred by gray skies, cold winds and a nasty drizzle, they came from Duluth and Rochester, Pequot Lakes and St. Paul, Mankato and Minneapolis, to urge legislators to support Minnesota schools with adequate funding.
Kim Bobo, executive director of the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, found an appreciative audience at the “Good Works” conference on labor and faith in St. Paul May 1 and 2.
Members of Hotel, Hospital, Restaurant and Tavern Employees Union Local 21 voted overwhelmingly to ratify a contract with Albert Lea Medical Center/Mayo Health System on April 30 that provides major changes in wages and health care.
Hardly anyone from organized labor showed up, but an amusingly diverse coalition of groups celebrated International Workers Day with a free-spirited and peaceful May Day march through downtown.
A May Day rally at the University of Minnesota focused on efforts by university employees to defeat cuts in their health care coverage.
For the second time this year, legal action by the Brotherhood of Maintenance Way Employees has halted suspicious medical testing by one of the nation’s largest railroads.
Saying that school districts will have to eliminate classes, services and thousands of teachers and other employees, the Alliance for Student Achievement steps up its campaign for sufficient public education funding with a rally at noon May 5 at the Capitol.