As part of an ongoing campaign to get a fair contract, members of Service Employees International Union Local 113 held a "Bake Sale for Health Care" Thursday outside Fairview University Hospital.

More than 3,300 Twin Cities hospital workers have been working without a contract since March 10 after five hospital systems declared an impasse in bargaining. In late April, members of Local 113 delivered a petition to the employer rejecting the offer and urging a return to the bargaining table. No negotiations are scheduled at this time.

Ben Fisher (above left), an organizer for Local 113, talks to a worker outside Fairview University Hospital Thursday. The bake sale dramatized the fact that many health care workers cannot afford health care coverage for themselves and their families.

Last month, Local 113 members held a "Bake Sale for Health Care" outside Fairview Riverside Hospital. They also are conducting other internal organizing activities to pressure management for a fair contract.

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