To dramatize how their coverage has become unaffordable, hospital workers held a "Bake Sale for Health Care" Tuesday outside Fairview Riverside hospital. Workers also plan a candlelight vigil Wednesday evening at Fairview Southdale to call on hospitals to return to negotiations.
More than 3,300 Twin Cities hospital employees are working without a contract after five hospital systems, including Fairview, HealthEast, North Memorial, Methodist, and Children's, declared bargaining at an impasse.
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The workers' union, Service Employees International Union Local 113, has filed unfair labor practice charges against the hospitals with the National Labor Relations Board. Local 113 says there is room to negotiate and management should return to the bargaining table.
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A key issue has been providing affordable health care coverage for the workers who provide health care. Local 113 represents nursing assistants, dietary workers, housekeeping staff and others who are the backbone of hospital operations.
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| Geri Weitzel sets cookies, bars and other baked goods on a table outside Fairview Riverside hospital in Minneapolis. |
Geri Weitzel distributes supplies at Fairview Riverside and has been employed at the hospital for 15 years. She provides the health care insurance for herself, her husband and their two children.
Rising premiums and higher co-pays are making the coverage unaffordable, she said. Recently, Fairview instituted a complicated health care plan that raises costs for every employee.
"The hospital says the insurance plan wasn't cost-effective for them. It isn't cost-effective for us either," she said. "And we're the lowest-paid people at the facility."
Weitzel and other hospital employees talked to patients, staff and others who stopped by the bake sale table Tuesday over the lunch hour.
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Wednesday's candlelight vigil will be at 8 p.m. outside Fairview Southdale, 6401 France Ave. S. (corner of France Ave. and Highway 62) in Edina, the union said.
Workers also are asking supporters to call Fairview CEO David Page at 612-672-6735 and urge him to go back to the bargaining table to reach a fair settlement with the union.
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| Union members held up signs at their bake sale. |
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To dramatize how their coverage has become unaffordable, hospital workers held a “Bake Sale for Health Care” Tuesday outside Fairview Riverside hospital. Workers also plan a candlelight vigil Wednesday evening at Fairview Southdale to call on hospitals to return to negotiations.
More than 3,300 Twin Cities hospital employees are working without a contract after five hospital systems, including Fairview, HealthEast, North Memorial, Methodist, and Children’s, declared bargaining at an impasse.
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The workers’ union, Service Employees International Union Local 113, has filed unfair labor practice charges against the hospitals with the National Labor Relations Board. Local 113 says there is room to negotiate and management should return to the bargaining table.
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A key issue has been providing affordable health care coverage for the workers who provide health care. Local 113 represents nursing assistants, dietary workers, housekeeping staff and others who are the backbone of hospital operations.
|
| Geri Weitzel sets cookies, bars and other baked goods on a table outside Fairview Riverside hospital in Minneapolis. |
Geri Weitzel distributes supplies at Fairview Riverside and has been employed at the hospital for 15 years. She provides the health care insurance for herself, her husband and their two children.
Rising premiums and higher co-pays are making the coverage unaffordable, she said. Recently, Fairview instituted a complicated health care plan that raises costs for every employee.
“The hospital says the insurance plan wasn’t cost-effective for them. It isn’t cost-effective for us either,” she said. “And we’re the lowest-paid people at the facility.”
Weitzel and other hospital employees talked to patients, staff and others who stopped by the bake sale table Tuesday over the lunch hour.
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Wednesday’s candlelight vigil will be at 8 p.m. outside Fairview Southdale, 6401 France Ave. S. (corner of France Ave. and Highway 62) in Edina, the union said.
Workers also are asking supporters to call Fairview CEO David Page at 612-672-6735 and urge him to go back to the bargaining table to reach a fair settlement with the union.
|
| Union members held up signs at their bake sale. |