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Layoffs Coming For Nurses At Children’s Hospitals

Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota is laying off nurses. While the hospitals say the cuts are necessary, the nurses worry patient safety will be jeopardized.

2011/03/03

Wis. Man Jailed After Punching Nurse In Face

Police say an intoxicated Appleton man punched a nurse in the face as she treated him for a cut finger.

2011/01/17

Duluth Nurses Set Strike Date

Nurses at a Duluth hospital have set a strike date. 90-percent of the roughly one-thousand nurses at SMDC/Essentia Health System voted last month to authorize a strike. That strike date has now been set for […]

2010/09/03

1,300 Duluth Nurses Voting Today

1,300 nurses in Duluth today vote on whether to ratify a three-year contract with St Mary’s Medical Center and St Luke’s Hospital — or stage a one-day walkout.

2010/08/18

Nurses Overwhelmingly Ratify Contract

The Minnesota Nurses Association says nurses have overwhelmingly approved a contract and averted a strike with 14 hospitals in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

2010/07/07

John Williams Show

Nurse staffing: PR battle or contract agreement Man who had his remains sent up in a firework Mike Max on Joe Mauer

2010/07/02

Talks Resume in Nurse/Hospital Dispute

Union nurses and 14 Twin Cities hospitals resume negotiations Tuesday afternoon.

2010/06/29

Saturday Night with Esme Murphy- 6-26-10

Esme gets the latest on the possible Nurses’ strike. She’s joined by Nellie Munn, an RN from Children’s Hospital and by Hospital Spokesperson Maureen Shriner.

2010/06/27

Nurses And Hospitals Resume Talks

Meeting in a secret location, negotiators for 12,000 nurses and 14 Twin Cities hospitals are resuming talks today with help from a federal mediator.

2010/06/24

Nurses Approve Strike Authorization

Thousands of Minnesota nurses have voted to authorize another strike on 14 hospitals in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

2010/06/22

Nurses Take Another Strike Vote

Thousands of Twin Cities nurses vote Monday on a proposal for another strike, only this one would be open-ended. 12,000 nurses struck 14 hospitals on June 10th, but it didn’t help movement toward a contract settlement. […]

2010/06/21

Nurses, Hospitals Hope To Resume Talks

The union representing some 12 thousand Twin Cities nurses is offering to resume talks next week with 14 hospitals and is pledging not to give a strike notice as long as talks are productive.

2010/06/19

Nurses Ask Hospitals to Resume Negotiations

If hospitals agree, talks would resume a day after nurses vote for second strike

2010/06/16

Nurses Will Vote on 2nd Strike

Nurses will vote Monday on open-ended strike

2010/06/15

Twin Cities Nurses On Strike

At 7am Thursday, 12,000 registered nurses walked off the job at 14 Twin Cities hospitals. The union nurses are locked in a contract dispute over issues such as pensions and staffing levels. Some 2,800 replacement […]

2010/06/10

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