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Contact: Shannon Cunningham
651-269-1418
Shannon.Cunningham@mnnurses.org

 

(Duluth, Minn) – June 25, 2025 – Essentia nurses with the Minnesota Nurses Association met with Essentia today for the final scheduled negotiation date prior to contract expiration on June 30, 2025. This comes on the heels of 15,000 nurses and Advanced Practice Providers in the Twin Cities metro and Twin Ports voting on Monday to authorize their negotiating teams to call an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike if necessary. Since April, Essentia nurses have been bargaining in good faith and advocating for safe staffing, fair compensation, and safer workplaces through their contract proposals.
… Read more about: Essentia nurses provide bargaining update as negotiations continue  »

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Minnesota nurses voted overwhelmingly on Monday to authorize an Unfair Labor Practice strike.

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Contact: Shannon Cunningham
(651) 269-1418
Shannon.Cunningham@mnnurses.org

(St. Paul, MN) – June 24, 2025 – More than 15,000 nurses from 13 hospitals across the Twin Cities and Duluth voted overwhelmingly to authorize an Unfair Labor Practice strike on Monday. The votes follow over three months of negotiations in which hospital executives failed to bargain in good faith and meaningfully engage in an effort to find common solutions around enforceable measures to protect patient safety and improve nurse staffing levels.
… Read more about: Thousands of Minnesota nurses protest Unfair Labor Practices committed by hospital employers, including failure to bargain in good faith over safe staffing  »

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Contact: Shannon Cunningham
(651) 269-1418
Shannon.Cunningham@mnnurses.org

Duluth, Minn – June 24, 2025 – Multiple groups of nurses, healthcare workers and Advanced Practice Providers at Essentia Health and Aspirus-St. Luke’s voted on Monday to authorize Unfair Labor Practice strikes at their facilities.  The votes follow months of negotiations in which the hospital corporation executives failed to bargain in good faith and failed to  meaningfully engage in an effort to find common solutions around enforceable measures to protect patient safety and improve nurse staffing levels, and in some cases refused to negotiate at all. 
… Read more about: Duluth Nurses and Advanced Practice Providers Vote to Authorize ULP Strikes Over Employer’s Refusal to Bargain in Good Faith and Other ULPs  »

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Contact: Shannon Cunningham
(c) 651-269-1418
Shannon.Cunningham@mnnurses.org

Contact:  Erin Moriarty
(c) 651-202-0845
Erin.Moriarty@mnnurses.org

WHEN:

Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Duluth – 8:00 a.m.
Metro – 9:00 a.m.

WHERE: 

Duluth- 8:00 a.m.
Duluth Labor Temple, 2002 London Road
Duluth, MN

Metro- 9:00 a.m.
Minnesota Nurses Association Office, 345 Randolph Ave, Suite 200
St. Paul, MN

WHO: Nurses and Advanced Practice Providers with the Minnesota Nurses Association
WHAT: An opportunity to hear from nurses and advanced practice providers about the status of bargaining and the results of MNA’s Unfair Labor Practice strike authorization vote.
… Read more about: Nurses to hold press conference with ULP strike vote authorization results  »

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Contact: Shannon Cunningham
651-269-1418
Shannon.Cunningham@mnnurses.org 

Duluth, MN – June 19, 2025 – Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) at Essentia Health are being forced to take unprecedented action. For nearly a year, 400 APPs—who include nurse practitioners, physician assistants, Certified Nurse Midwives, and clinical nurse specialists—have requested a seat at the bargaining table. Essentia Health has refused and instead responded with numerous illegal Unfair Labor Practices. 

As a result of these Unfair Labor Practices, Essentia’s East Market Advanced Practice Providers are now moving to authorize an Unfair Labor Practice strike vote. The vote will take place Monday, June 23rd.
… Read more about: Advanced Practice Providers at Essentia Health Move Toward ULP Strike Vote After Hospital Refuses to Bargain  »

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Contact: Shannon Cunningham
651-269-1418
Shannon.Cunningham@mnnurses.org

 

(Duluth, MN) – June 18, 2025 – In the final scheduled bargaining session before their contract expires, nurses at Aspirus St. Luke’s were met not with compromise, but with cuts. Instead of working toward solutions, hospital executives introduced an economic proposal loaded with rollbacks: limiting sick time, vacation, dental, and health coverage for two-thirds of acute care nurses. This also comes after weeks of Aspirus St. Luke’s criticizing nurses for failing to present their full economic proposal, despite not offering one of their own until now.
… Read more about: Aspirus Walks Away from Solutions, Pushes Concessions Instead of Care  »

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Contact: Shannon Cunningham
(c) 651-269-1418
Shannon.Cunningham@mnnurses.org

 

(St. Paul) – June 4, 2025 – Thousands of nurses with the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) held an informational picket today at 11 Twin Cities hospitals and two Duluth hospitals to highlight issues at the core of their ongoing contract fight with hospital executives. Nurses across the state are in the midst of a staffing crisis and continue to cite staffing as their number one issue in bargaining. Having enough nurses per patient not only benefits patients, but it also reduces injury and violence on the job, keeps experienced nurses at the bedside, and saves healthcare systems desperately needed funds.
… Read more about: Nurses picket Twin Cities, Duluth hospitals as 15,000 seek new contracts that prioritize patient safety  »

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Contact: Shannon Cunningham
(c) 651-269-1418
shannon.cunningham@mnnurses.org

Kayla Drake
(c) 314-448-8064
kdrake@momentum-advocacy.com

(St. Paul) – May 15, 2025 – Nurses and supporters rallied outside the Medical Alley Annual Dinner this evening to demand accountability from healthcare executives and CEOs who continue to uphold a healthcare system that puts profits over patients.

The Medical Alley Annual Dinner is a who’s-who of Minnesota’s healthcare so-called elites — a closed-door celebration of power where hospital executives, insurance industry leaders, and corporate financiers gather to conduct insider conversations while patients and frontline workers wait patiently for fair staffing levels to be discussed with those delivering patient care on the front lines in hospitals statewide.
… Read more about: Frontline healthcare workers call out corporate control at Medical Alley annual dinner  »

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CEO Jennifer DeCubellis and current Board of Directors fail to address crisis of patient care, nurse retention, and workplace violence

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Contact: Sam Fettig
(c) 612-741-0662
sam.fettig@mnnurses.org

Lauren Bloomquist
(c) 651-376-9709
lauren.bloomquist@mnnurses.org

WATCH: HCMC healthcare workers speak out on the need for accountability at HHS. [Link]

(St. Paul) – April 2, 2024 – Nurses with the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) and healthcare workers from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the Hennepin County Association of Paramedics and EMTs (HCAPE) today called on the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners to initiate dissolution of the Hennepin Healthcare System (HHS) Board of Directors.
… Read more about: Healthcare workers call for dissolution of Hennepin Healthcare board to protect future of Hennepin County Medical Center     »

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Planned closures of ICU, surgery services, and pediatric inpatient beds at Mercy Hospital and Unity Campus follow a pattern of corporate priorities by Allina executives   

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Contact: Sam Fettig
(c) 612-741-0662
sam.fettig@mnnurses.org

Lauren Bloomquist
(c) 651-376-9709
lauren.bloomquist@mnnurses.org

(St. Paul) – March 25, 2024 – Tomorrow, nurses with the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) will join patients, community members, and other healthcare providers and workers to speak out on the devastating impacts of the planned corporate closures by Allina executives at Mercy Hospital and Unity Campus.
… Read more about: Nurses, other healthcare providers and workers, patients to testify in public hearing on impact of Allina corporate closures  »