Update: the Twin Cities TA voting results will be announced sometime this evening on the MNA website, after polls close at 9 PM, and a press release will go out after that.
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Congratulations to former MNA Bargaining Unit Chair and DFL legislator Chris Eaton, who has been appointed by Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk to be one of his Majority Whips. We know she will be a strong and effective voice for Minnesota. http://ow.ly/i/1hazW
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Twin Cities nurses look below for your voting schedule. We’ll see you next week!
Think of yourself in your early 20s-young, energetic, maybe a little naïve in some ways. All it takes is a look into one’s old closet or record collection to realize that. But one thing we all have in common is the belief that when we entered our careers, worked hard, paid taxes, that our investment in our future would pay off. Our health care costs would be taken care of because we faithfully paid into Medicare for 30, 40, 50 years. It’s a good thing our 20-something self didn’t hear the current discussion of raising the Medicare age to solve Washington’s budget woes.
Pushing seniors off the Medicare rolls sounds like a good idea, but it’s not.
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The Minnesota Nurses Association is happy to welcome Rick Fuentes to represent its 20,000 members in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Rick has been known to the Twin Cities as a TV reporter, and, most recently, he’s been an advocate for nonprofit organizations and public affairs campaigns.
Rick is a graduate of the University of Missouri’s Journalism School. From there
he worked at KOMU-TV (NBC) in Columbia, MO; KCOY-TV (CBS) in San Luis Obispo, CA; KSNV-TV (NBC) in Las Vegas, NV; and the CBS station, WCCO-TV, in Minneapolis. Rick served as an investigative reporter, which earned him an Edward R. Murrow Award in 1998, and as a regular beat reporter on labor issues, where he covered grocery store workers, culinary workers, bus drivers, and airline mechanics in separate contract disputes.
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MNA nurses at Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center took their patient advocacy to the streets yesterday – on a haywagon! Carrying the message of “Nurses on the Frontlines for Main Street People,” the nurses rode a very public route that included passing the hospital, Southwest State University and the HyVee, as well as through residential streets. Negotiations are dragging and nurses are demanding a contract that helps nurses keep patients safe, including:
• adequate staffing
• A contract that gives us a stronger voice in patient care
• Healthy workplaces that keep nurses at the bedside
MNA members distributed nearly 1,000 flyers with the name and contact information of Avera CEO, Mary Martens.
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Join your fellow union members as we say –
WORKING FAMILIES VOTE NO!
We Are Minnesota, a coalition of local unions including MNA, is sponsoring a rally to demonstrate our opposition to BOTH constitutional amendments that will be on the ballot this fall.
WHEN & WHERE: Sunday, September 30 in St. Paul’s Rice Park
Gather at 12:30; program (about 45 minutes) at 1:00.
Emcee will be SAG-AFTRA and Equity member Sue Scott of Prairie Home Companion, and speakers will include labor leaders, rank-and-file members, and dignitaries. We’ll also have some great musical performers, including the Twin Cities Labor Chorus and AFofM member singer-guitarist Scott Dercks, who will lead us in a sing-along to end the program.
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Sunday, September 2
Virginia
Iron Range Labor Assembly picnic
12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Olcott Park, Virginia 55792
Program at 1:30 p.m. Join us for a raffle, games for kids, a beer garden and all the food you can eat. This picnic is open to anyone.
Monday, September 3 – Labor Day
Brainerd/Baxter
Brainerd Trades and Labor Assembly Solidarity Day 2012 Labor Day picnic
12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Baxter City Park, Baxter MN 56425
Join us for food, beverages, music, games for kids and door prizes.
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HEALTH CARE
Doctor is In; Retail is Out The glut of empty strip malls and big-box stores in the wake of the go-go years has made leases so affordable that nearly every major hospital system in the state and many private health care organizations have jumped in.
Indiana Hospital Blames Electronic Records for Longer Waits in ER Patients’ lengths of stay in Columbus Regional Hospital’s emergency department doubled in late June during a switch to an electronic records system, and times are still longer than usual despite improvements, hospital officials said.
LABOR
American Pilots Reject Contract Pilots for American Airlines have strongly rejected a contract offer that would have helped the company cut labor costs, dashing American’s hopes of winning voluntary concessions from all its labor unions.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, August 9, 2012: Retail health care; AA Pilots Reject Offer »
