MINNESOTA (KVRR) — The Minnesota Nurses Association says a bill to require a minimum staffing number of nurses in a hospital would help stave off the waves of nurses leaving the profession. The Keep Nurses at the Bedside Act would set minimum nurse to patient ratios across the state. The MNA says the current ratios aren’t safe and put patients…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KFGO) – Now that nurses have new contracts with major hospitals in the Twin Cities and Duluth-Superior, union leaders say they’ll turn their focus to blocking the proposed merger of South Dakota-based Sanford Health with Minnesota-headquartered Fairview Health Services. Minnesota Nurses Association Executive Director Rose Roach says the union will lobby against the merger at the State…
ST. PAUL (AP/KVRR) — Nurses at 16 hospitals in the Twin Cities and Duluth areas have authorized workers to go on a second strike, as early as December 11. Union leaders say it will happen if a contract deal is not reached in the coming days. Minnesota Nurses Association says the walkouts will last until December 31 at most hospitals;…
MINNEAPOLIS — Just two months after around 15,000 nurses walked off the job in Minnesota over staffing and wages, Minnesota Nurses Association is ready to do it again. The association has declared its intent to hold a vote on November 30 to strike. The president of the MNA says they are losing faith in the bargaining process and that hospital…
ST. PAUL (AP/KVRR) — Minnesota Nurses Association announces 15,000 nurses are going to go on strike in 10 days. The nurses will strike for three days at 16 hospitals across seven different hospital systems in the Twin Cities and Duluth, as well as, Moose Lake and Superior, Wisconsin. The strike is the largest nurses’ strike in U.S. history, according to…
ST. PAUL, MINN – The head of the Minnesota Nurses Association is ripping new C-D-C guidelines that shorten the recommended COVID-19 quarantine periods. Under the new recommendations, vaccinated health care workers who are exposed no longer must isolate. M-N-A president Mary Turner called the new policy a “disaster.” Turner said,” It may be good for businesses’ bottom lines to push…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (Dave Kolpack, AP) – Nurses have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract with Children’s Hospitals of Minnesota, after union nurses had authorized their negotiating team to call for a strike. The Minnesota Nurses Association says negotiating teams agreed on contract terms early Saturday after meeting for than 21 hours. The hospital approved an insurance…
DULUTH, Minn. — The Minnesota Nurses Association says they are filing grievances after nurses with Essentia Health were fired after they did not get their flu shot by the hospital’s deadline. Health care workers are not required by state law to get the flu vaccine, but hospital officials say it all comes down to patient safety. “Minnesota Nurses Association is…
