Nurses (Page 50)

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By Nellie Munn, RN

Twelve thousand nurses in the Twin Cities are fending off a well-coordinated attack by corporate health care interests to diminish the power of our union. In a metropolitan area with one of the highest densities of organized nurses in the country, we know that if the employers take down the Minnesota Nurses Association, they can take down anyone.

The nurses authorized a one-day strike last week by more than 90 percent of 9,200 voting. Negotiations with 14 Twin Cities hospitals owned by six corporations started in March, but little actual back and forth has taken place.
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Have a story you want to share? Contact MNA’s John Nemo for details.

Our 6-year-old daughter has been admitted to Children’s three times for pneumonia and asthma-related bouts.  Her first stay at Children’s Hospital was when she was 2.  Most recently, last fall, Sarah was in the ICU, and we were as frightened as ever that we would lose her. The nurses were unfailingly attentive to her, and to us.  They kept us informed, giving us updates, helping us interpret stats, answering questions, and referring us to the right people when they themselves didn’t have the answers.  
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One of our Twin Cities nurses e-mailed Allina CEO Ken Paulus asking why hospital executives got bonuses during the 2009 economic recession. Paulus responded via the first e-mail below that none of the executives in the Allina system (which includes United Hospital, among others) got bonuses (which he calls “merit increases”) in 2009.

Then another Twin Cities nurse asks the United Hospital President, Tomi Ryba, the same question – why did hospital executives get bonuses during the 2009 recession? (Paulus just said they did NOT get bonuses, remember?) Tomi confirms in the second e-mail below that these executives did in fact get bonuses!
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