Allina nurses end strike, pledge to keep up fight for patient care, workplace safety
From the Union Advocate
Allina nurses voted yesterday to ratify a three-year contract and end their historic strike at five Twin Cities facilities, but their fight for workplace safety, adequate staffing and respect on the job isn’t over.
And after spending nearly a month and a half on the picket line this year, nurses know it’s a fight they are not in alone.
The contract campaign was a “lesson in labor education” for nearly 5,000 members of the Minnesota Nurses Association at Abbott Northwestern, Mercy, United and Unity hospitals and Phillips Eye Institute, United nurse Bunny Engeldorf said.