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MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL—A prior overwhelming strike authorization vote by members of the Minnesota Nurses Association drove Twin Cities-area and Duluth hospitals to bargain with and agree to new contracts with the union, whose 15,000 nurses then ratified them.
This article first appeared in Union Advocate. Minnesota employees are part of a wave of organizing activity across the U.S. that is putting the “union” back in the American Civil Liberties Union. After a speedy organizing drive that took just two months, eligible staff at the ACLU of Minnesota won voluntary recognition from the 70-year-old civil rights organization July 2, five days after the union announced it had support from a “supermajority” of 11 eligible employees. The same week, employees at two other state affiliates of the ACLU, Arizona and Illinois, announced union drives...
Hennepin EMS union: New blue uniforms too closely resemble police Leaders fear new uniforms too closely resemble what police wear. July 7, 2021 — 5:48pm Text size Copy shortlink: As Hennepin EMS prepares to unveil its new blue uniforms, after decades of showing up at emergency scenes in trademark "UPS brown," the paramedics union argued Wednesday that the change could put lives at risk by making medics look even more like police officers than before. While the agency's leadership said the move was intended to avoid confusion, in...
Vote set for April is part of a nationwide trend in the sector.