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NEW YORK, United States - The largest private sector nurses' strike in US history kicked off Monday, organizers said, with some 15,000 workers in hospitals across Minnesota and Wisconsin demanding better working conditions and higher wages. Strikes in the United States have occurred regularly over
No fewer than 15,000 workers in hospitals across Minnesota and Wisconsin in the United States of America have commenced strike, demanding better working conditions and higher wages. The strike took off on Monday in seven healthcare systems in Minneapolis and Duluth, mounting picket lines, chanting slogans and holding signs bearing messages such as “Patients Before Profits.”
Thousands of private sector nurses go on strike in the US states of Minnesota and Wisconsin to demand better working conditions and higher wages.
The MNA announced the decision to strike after months of attempting to constrain the struggle of nurses behind appeals to the CEOs of the hospitals as part of their “Patients Before Profits'' campaign.
Last Sunday the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP), the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), broadcast its initial election rally in advance of the German federal elections on September 26.