Photo Slideshow – May 6th Informational Picketing
More than 3,000 Twin Cities RNs took to the streets for informational picketing outside of Abbott Northwestern, Children’s Minneapolis and Mercy Hospitals!
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WCCO AM Radio Interview
Take a moment to listen to WCCO AM 830’s interview that aired live today featuring MNA RN Mary McGibbon!
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MNA Proposals to Allina – Summary
Allina Nurses: When you have a chance, please review this brief summary of MNA’s Proposals to Allina. Note that the employer has not responded to a single MNA proposal yet.
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Coming May 6: Thousands of Minnesota Nurses take to the streets for patient safety!
Below is a handout Minnesota Nurses will be sharing with members of the general public on May 6, 2010. That afternoon, thousands of Minnesota Nurses will conduct informational picketing across the Twin Cities to help educate members of the public about what is at stake for patients during the current contract negotiations between 12,000 Minnesota Nurses and six different Twin Cities hospital systems.
Visit the MNA Web site to get all the details on this important day!
Public Support for Minnesota Nurses
In recent days members of the general public have been visiting the MNA Facebook page and a Support Minnesota Nurses page on the MNA Web site to share their support for MN RNs! Take a look at the photos below for a quick look!
Allina Bargaining Update
(Note: Visit the Allina Bargaining page on the MNA Web site for previous updates)
UPDATE: Via Jim Danielson, a member of the Allina bargaining team, posted on MNA’s Facebook page:
We (MNA) talked about 2 of our proposals at length. We discussed why they are important to us. In specific, our proposal on “Leave of Absence” and our proposal on Organizing and Elections. We have done this with almost all of our proposals up to this point and we get rolling eyes and chuckling again yesterday. Instead of asking about our proposals, they asked us to respond to their proposals.
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HealthEast Bargaining Update
Hello fellow registered nurses!
I am writing about our experience at bargaining with HealthEast on April 20, 2010. The day started out beautifully with over 50 RNs showing up at the Bethesda lobby to support their bargaining team and to welcome management as they arrived for today’s session. We are confident that management got the message that RNs are unhappy about what HealthEast is trying to do to our profession.
The management team seemed uneasy as they tried to explain their proposal to us today. Maybe it is because they don’t believe in what they are being told to do, or maybe it’s because over 50 registered nurses welcomed them as we started the day?
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Your Safety vs. Hospital Profits
More than 12,000 Minnesota Nurses are in the midst of negotiating a new labor contract with six different Twin Cities hospital systems. At the core of these negotiations is one key issue – YOU.
Minnesota Nurses want Patient Safety put ahead of Hospital Profits. An estimated 72,000 lives could be saved each year if hospitals would use the proper RN-to-patient staffing ratios. Instead, nearly 1,500 Minnesotans needlessly die each year because our hospitals aren’t properly staffed. And it’s not that the hospitals can’t afford to do this – they just don’t want to. Why? Because Twin Cities hospitals are putting profits ahead of patients.
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