“A lot of us are just at our breaking points collectively, and we feel like we have done everything we can to avoid getting to this point,” Dr. Nick VenOsdel, a pediatrician at the Hastings clinic, said. “The time to fight is now.”
Allina primary-care doctors picket: ‘We need a lifeline’
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The bargaining unit of 600 doctors, physicians’ assistants and nurse practitioners took the historic step – they are the first doctors to picket in Minnesota, according to their international union – 15 months into bargaining a first contract with Allina.
Twin Cities doctors, nurses to picket June 3-4 as progress stalls on contract campaigns
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Unionized doctors and nurses escalate their contract campaigns at Allina and other local health systems.
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