MNA Welcomes New Members in Baudette
About one-tenth of the population of a northern Minnesota town now belongs to MNA.
Nearly 100 employees at LakeWood Health Center in Baudette (population 1,080) voted last week in favor of contract representation by the MNA.
The successful vote was the result of a determined effort by workers who wanted to advocate more strongly for patients and employees. The new bargaining unit will represent most non-management employees.
“We kept having more duties and more work to do as they outsourced and cut,” said RN Bonnie Harness. “We were really upset. LakeWood needed to work with us but they didn’t want to.”
A group of LakeWood employees contacted MNA in January and the campaign to organize began.
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