Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/bargaining/page/16/)
At about 6:30 this morning, in the closing minutes of a 24-hour strike by Twin Cities nurses, a handful of pickets stood at their posts in the rain outside Fairview Southdale Hospital.
Nurses are walking picketlines at 14 hospitals across the Twin Cities. View video and photos.
Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association will be on the picketline – instead of at the bedside – outside 14 Twin Cities hospitals Thursday.
Some 12,000 California nurses who had hoped to strike Thursday – the same day as their Minnesota counterparts – have been barred from a walkout. Instead, they will hold rallies across the state to continue their push for safe staffing, the California Nurses Association said.
Registered Nurse Monica Proulx says she is ready to strike to protect the profession she loves.
Community supporters, including faith groups and members of other unions, plan a vigil Wednesday – hours before Twin Cities nurses are set to hold a one-day strike.
A contract Murray’s restaurant imposed on UNITE HERE Local 17 members must be rescinded, according to a decision by the Region 18 office of the National Labor Relations Board, Local 17 President Nancy Goldman reported.
When nurses strike, hospitals routinely use replacement workers supplied by temp firms across the country. But a recently released study indicates hospitals’ use of replacement nurses leaves patients at risk.
The Minnesota Nurses Association announced Friday that more than 12,000 Twin Cities nurses will conduct a one-day strike for patient safety beginning at 7 a.m. on Thursday, June 10. The work stoppage will be the largest nursing-related strike in U.S. history in terms of the number of nurses involved.
More than 12,000 Twin Cities nurses will gather inside the St. Paul RiverCentre Wednesday to cast what could become a historic vote.