Nurses at North Memorial Health Maple Grove Hospital approve strike
Hundreds of nurses at North Memorial Health's Maple Grove Hospital have voted to approve an unfair labor practice strike, their union announced Tuesday.
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Hundreds of nurses at North Memorial Health's Maple Grove Hospital have voted to approve an unfair labor practice strike, their union announced Tuesday.
Nurses say they don't want to strike, but they're willing to do so if necessary.
Several hundred nurses at North Memorial Health's Maple Grove Hospital are taking an unfair labor practice strike authorization vote Monday.
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The union representing 15,000 Minnesota nurses announced the health care workers voted "overwhelmingly" Wednesday to walk off the job for the second time this year. This time the potential strike would last much longer.
The Minnesota Nurses Association said its nurses voted to approve an unfair labor practices strike.
Back in September, thousands of nurses went on a three-day strike, citing unfair labor practices. Union nurses say those issues have only gotten worse and they have yet to reach a contract agreement.
Nurses from a northern Minnesota hospitals say they're joining in on the strike authorization vote happening Wednesday. Meanwhile, Essentia Health said it has reached a "tentative agreement" with nurses in Moose Lake, so those nurses will not be joining in on the vote.
Minnesota nurses say they aren't getting anywhere in negotiations with hospitals and they may authorize another strike.
Tuesday is day two of a strike that's sent thousands of nurses to picket lines from the Twin Cities to Duluth. The different sides haven't seen eye-to-eye on proposed pay increases and changes to staffing.
Job postings circulating online for traveling nurses from Medical Staffing Solutions advertise pay starting at just under $8,000 for this strike specifically.
WCCO's Pauleen Le reports from Abbott Northwestern in Minneapolis Tuesday morning as the second day of a three-day nurses strike begins.
There are three hospitals in the area that are not impacted by the nurses strike because they are non-union. Now those hospitals are doing to make sure the needs of patients and families are met.
WCCO's Pauleen Le has an update on the Minnesota nurses strike at noon Monday.
WCCO's Pauleen Le has the latest on the Minnesota nurses' strike Monday morning.
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