Twin Cities doctors, nurses to picket June 3-4 as progress stalls on contract campaigns

Unionized doctors and nurses escalate their contract campaigns at Allina and other local health systems.

Allina doctors mark one year since union vote with call for progress in talks

Unionized doctors in the Allina Health system are frustrated with the slow pace of contract negotiations and management’s failure to address concerns about ongoing lab-processing delays.

Led by nurses, coalition of MN unions to push ‘Healing Greed Agenda’ in 2024

The agenda focuses on safety, nurse retention and increased accountability for health systems and their highly paid executives.

Allina Health clinicians file for union election

They would be the nation’s largest private-sector union of clinicians.

Minnesota nurses call off strike, claim ‘historic victory’ in contract campaign

Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association called off a planned three-week strike Dec. 6 after reaching tentative agreements on new contracts covering 15,000 nurses at seven hospital systems in the Twin Cities and Duluth areas. The proposed three-year contracts, if ratified, would raise metro nurses’ wages by 18% and, according to the union, would give […]

Hospital nurses in Twin Cities, Duluth vote to authorize strike

Nurses at 15 Minnesota hospitals voted yesterday to authorize a strike, after union negotiators accused health care executives of refusing to bargain contracts that protect the safety of their patients and address the crisis facing their profession. “What we are being forced to do is totally against every ethical principal that we have,” Minnesota Nurses […]