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Minnesota nurses hold strike vote over staffing concerns

More than 1,300 nurses in Duluth, Minn., will vote today to decide whether to accept final contract offers from two hospital systems or to reject the contracts and authorize a one-day strike, reports

Nurses unions: Strike votes in D.C. and Massachusetts, pending in Minnesota

Unionized nurses at hospitals across the country continue to back up strike threats with authorization votes--and even firm strike dates--as they fail to find common ground during negotiations with

Massachusetts hospital faces potential RN strike

Hospitals haven't seen a regional "en masse" strike threat by nurses since the now-resolved Minneapolis/St. Paul standoff. However, nursing unions don't appear to have any plans to take a strongly

Union news: Minnesota nurses approve contract, Massachusetts teaching hospitals targeted

Minneapolis/St. Paul nurses on Tuesday July 6 voted to ratify a new three-year labor contract with 14 area nonprofit hospitals, reports the Star Tribune. The Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA)

Minnesota labor update: Federal mediator tries to head off extended nurses strike

A federal mediator will try to jump start deadlocked contract negotiations between thousands of Minneapolis/St. Paul nurses and a consortium of 14 area nonprofit hospitals by bringing the two

Labor unrest: Nursing strike threats, meal-break lawsuits occur amid record mass layoffs

Hospital labor relations have gone from prickly to downright thorny. Mass layoffs (i.e., layoffs of 50 or more employees) at hospitals reached a record high in April, excluding anomalous September

California nurses barred from strike, but Minnesota nurses ready for June 10 D-day

San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Peter Busch has issued a temporary restraining order to prevent thousands of University of California (UC) nurses from participating in a one-day strike