Highlights from local and national media coverage of negotiations and the strike
- MPR News – ‘They heard us’: Minnesota nurses union approves three-year contract
- Pioneer Press – Minnesota nurses approve three-year contracts that include raises of up to 18 percent
- US News – Nurses Ratify Contracts at 15 Twin Cities, Duluth Hospitals
- Star Tribune – Nurses ratify contracts, avert Minnesota hospital strikes
- Minnesota Reformer – Mary Turner just led the largest private-sector nurses strike in U.S. history. What’s next?
- FOX 21 – Minnesota Nurses Association to Ratify New 3 Year Contracts With Hospitals
- Star Tribune – A strike—and a care crisis—likely averted
- CBS News Minnesota – Minnesota nurses reach tentative deals with nearly all hospitals ahead of strike
- Chief Healthcare Executive – Minnesota hospitals, nurses avoid strike: What’s in the deal
- Scrubs Magazine – Minnesota Nurses Win “Historic” Pay Raise, averting possible strike
- Manistee News Advocate – Minnesota nurses reach tentative contract, averting strike
- Reuters – Minnesota nurses reach tentative deal with hospitals to avoid strike
- Duluth News Tribune – St. Luke’s, Essentia reach tentative agreements with nurses
- KNSI Radio – Working Conditions Hang Over Another Possible Minnesota Nurses’ Strike
- Star Tribune – Nursing strike would weaken Minnesota hospitals financially
- KARE 11 – One week left to reach a deal before Minnesota nurse’s strike
- CBS News Minnesota – Minnesota nurses vote to strike for 2nd time this year: “Our hospitals are in crisis”
- WDIO 10 – Discussion with MIT Professor: A strike impacts us all
- KARE 11 – Governor Walz ‘hopeful’ nurses and hospitals will avoid strike in 10 days
- Star Tribune – Nurses authorize second strike, press hospitals on staffing
- MPR News – Minnesota nurses set Dec. 11 strike date, plan 3-week walkout
- Minnesota Reformer – 15,000 Minnesota nurses to strike beginning Dec. 11
- KMSP 9 – Minnesota nurses strike vote announced, “hospital leadership has failed us”
- Fight Back News – 15,00 MN nurses to take strike authorization vote
- The Southerner – A Look Back on Minnesota’s Nurses Strike
- Workday Magazine – They Waged the Largest Private-Sector Nurses’ Strike in U.S. History. They’re Still Waiting for Justice.
- Duluth News Tribune – Duluth Nurses’ View: Nurses fighting to fix a crisis in our hospitals
- The Nation – “You Strike So You Don’t Quit”: Across the Country, Nurses Are Fighting Overwork
- MPR All Things Considered – The state of unions
- The Bark UMD – Northland nurses demands for improved working conditions yet to be fulfilled
- Washington Post – Thousands of striking nurses return to work in Minnesota
- ABC News Nightline – Nurses in Minnesota organize largest strike of private-sector nurses in U.S. history
- MPR – How the Minnesota nurses strike could have national implications
- Chief Healthcare Executive – The Minnesota nurses strike is over, but there’s still no deal
- Duluth News Tribune – Reader’s View: Nurses’ strike isn’t about salaries
- Georgia Fort – Equity, retention and safe staffing among topics nurses seek in new contract
- KBJR 6 – Twin Ports nurses, hospitals set next negotiation dates after strike
- Pioneer Press – As MN nurses strike ends, focus returns to contract negotiations
- PBS Newshour – Why 15,000 nurses went on strike in Minnesota
- AXIOS Twin Cities – WhMinnesota nurses return to work after three-day strike
- Up With the Workers – An overview of the nurses’ strike
- CNN – Massive health care strike: 15,000 Minnesota nurses walk off the job
- Duluth News Tribune – Nurse rescued tenants from fast-spreading fire in Duluth’s Central Hillside
- Star Tribune – Nurses go on strike at Twin Cities, Duluth area hospitals
- KARE 11 – Union nurses demand say in hospital staffing levels
- USA Today – Pay, staffing and fatigue: Minnesota nurses strike highlights worsening shortages across US
- Sahan Journal – Nurses of color on a historic strike share why they’re fighting for increased staffing, higher wages, and better patient care
- Washington Post – Largest private-sector nurses strike in U.S. history begins in Minnesota – ‘I can’t give my patients the care they deserve,’ one nurse says
- Washington Post – Why thousands of nurses are protesting in Minnesota
- Georgia Fort – Black nurses demand better working conditions; No deal reached on second day of massive strike
- Minnesota Reformer – Thousands of Minnesota nurses hit the picket lines in historic 3-day strike
- Wall Street Journal – Thousands of Minnesota Nurses Go on Strike Over Retention, Staffing, Pay
- FOX News – Ilhan Omar marches with striking nurses protesting low pay, understaffing
- National Public Radio – Thousands of nurses in Minnesota go on strike over better working conditions
- Pioneer Press – MN nurses strike for more pay, better staffing; hospital officials say demands unrealistic
- WCCO – Nurses brought in at hospitals during strike offered $8,000+ for 5 days’ work
- Jacobin – One of the Largest Nurses’ Strikes in US History is Brewing in Minnesota
- Reuters – ‘Understaffed and overworked’: Thousands of Minnesota nurses go on strike
- Jezebel – ‘This Job Has to Get Better or I Have to Leave’: 15,000 Minnesota Nurses Are on Strike
- KARE 11 – Walz rallies with striking nurses
- Star Tribune – Letters to the Editor, September 12 – nearly unanimous support of nurses, critical of CEOs
- Star Tribune – Letters to the Editor, September 13 – more writers in support of nurses, including a strong endorsement from a local doctor
- Duluth News Tribune – Northland nurses rally before strike
- FOX 9 – What to expect during Minnesota’s possible nurses strike