Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2016/06/)
Nurses who recently struck five Allina Health facilities say the company is attempting to negotiate a new contract directly with members and through the news media – rather than following the collective bargaining process.
Activists will deliver a petition to Minneapolis City Hall Wednesday with signatures from about 20,000 registered voters who support amending the city’s charter to guarantee workers a $15 minimum wage.
The Minnesota Orchestra and Minneapolis Pops Orchestra, whose members belong to the Twin Cities Musicians Union, are presenting free concerts in the next few weeks.
Nurses ended their weeklong strike at five Twin Cities Allina Health facilities on Sunday, but no resolution is in sight in contract negotiations that began last February.
Heat and Frost Insulators Local 34, supported by other Building Trades unions, began an informational picket at Bayview and Southview elementary schools in Waconia Thursday.
As hundreds of striking nurses picket Unity Hospital, another group of 345 employees – who provide a range of patient care from nursing to food services and transportation – is poised to reject a contract offer from the facility.
To the Kaiser family, the issues behind the Minnesota Nurses Association strike at Allina Health and SEIU contract negotiations with the company aren’t difficult to understand. They are living them.
Allina Health nurses are walking the picket lines outside five Twin Cities health care facilities this week, but they aren’t walking alone.
On day four of their seven-day strike, nurses who work for Allina Health highlighted the workplace violence issues they face every day — issues which they say Allina has refused to address in contract negotiations.
An estimated 70,000 workers in St. Paul could soon be eligible for up to 48 hours of earned sick and safe time a year, under recommendations issued by a city task force.