Nursing vote scheduled Thursday

Nurses vote Thursday whether to accept a contract offer from 13 Twin Cities hospitals. Rejection could mean a strike by 9,000 RNs starting June 1.

Nurses will be voting at several locations well into the evening, said Jan Rabbers, spokeswoman for the Minnesota Nurses Association. Results may be known around midnight, she said.

Talks broke off Monday night between the MNA and the hospitals after two days of negotiations on key economic issues of salary and benefits.

“Final proposals brought forth by employers indicate a wide discrepancy between their offer and what 9,000 nurses have said is needed to combat a very real nurse shortage and a crisis in patient care,” the MNA said in a statement after the talks ended.

Negotiations continued between some individual hospitals and nurses’ negotiating committees Tuesday, but no progress was made, said Jan Rabbers, MNA spokeswoman.

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Hospital spokeswoman Shireen Gandhi-Kozel said the hospitals “stretched as far as we absolutely could” in the contract offer.

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