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.
Hospital nurses picket for safe staffing in Twin Cities, Duluth
June 4, 2025 by
Any hospital executive wondering whether members of the Minnesota Nurses Association would give up that fight got a resounding answer today, as thousands of nurses, dressed in MNA’s signature red, were back on picket lines at 17 hospitals in the Twin Cities and Duluth area.
Twin Cities doctors, nurses to picket June 3-4 as progress stalls on contract campaigns
May 29, 2025 by
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
December 12, 2024 by
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.
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.
Minnesota unions praise historic legislative session
May 24, 2023 by
A bill to address hospital staffing shortfalls, however, fell short of the union nurses’ expectations.
AFSCME members picket Carter’s State of the City speech
April 19, 2023 by
“I would love to feel like the mayor actually respects the work that we do and respects how difficult it can be.”
Mental health workers strike: ‘Allina does not respect us in the slightest’
October 6, 2022 by
Mental health workers at two Twin Cities hospitals wrapped up a three-day strike Wednesday, with union members rallying on the picket line outside Abbott Northwestern and vowing not to be bullied in contract negotiations with Allina Health. “It has been quite evident that Allina does not respect us in the slightest,” said Jordan Cich, a […]
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