The new contracts include 10% raises over the next three years, new tools to address workplace violence and requirements that hospitals provide coverage for nurses when they go on breaks.
GOP’s Medicaid cuts would raise costs for everyone, union report finds
June 18, 2025 by
Health care workers joined community and faith leaders today on the Capitol steps in St. Paul to demand Republicans in Congress walk back historic cuts to Medicaid included in their budget bill, which President Trump wants on his desk by July 4. Meanwhile, a new analysis from the AFL-CIO warns those cuts will make health care less […]
Chris Rubesch: We need all workers to stand with us against Essentia
May 23, 2025 by
This is about more than nurse staffing. It’s about whether working people in Minnesota still have the power to shape their jobs, their safety and their futures.
Joining MNA a ‘proud moment’ for Hazelden Betty Ford nurses
February 4, 2025 by
Nurses at the esteemed treatment center in Chisago County voted to unionize last month, part of a recent organizing surge among health care workers in the Twin Cities area.
Health care unions back debt reform push in MN Legislature
April 22, 2024 by
Jennifer Schultz has been cancer free for over two years, but being free from the debt she’s amassed in her battles with the illness feels a long way off for the four-time survivor from St. Paul. “Sometimes it feels like I’m in a constant cycle of medical debt,” Schultz told labor, faith and community activists […]
Allina cancer center nurses vote to unionize after management shrugs off safety concerns
February 29, 2024 by
“We were told they were building the plane as they were flying it, and that we’d be failing forward together.”
Led by nurses, coalition of MN unions to push ‘Healing Greed Agenda’ in 2024
February 9, 2024 by
The agenda focuses on safety, nurse retention and increased accountability for health systems and their highly paid executives.
Union members bristle at Allina plans for more hospital cuts
October 27, 2023 by
Health care workers don’t want to see pandemic-level staffing become the new normal.
Women workers leading push for statewide paid family leave
February 16, 2023 by
Women workers have provided compelling, personal testimony about paid family leave and its potential to improve working families’ lives.
Workers warn ‘bigger does not mean better’ when it comes to hospital mergers
February 2, 2023 by
Union members have emerged as a leading voice of opposition to the proposed merger between M Health Fairview and Sanford Health.
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