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Duluth Nurses Join Statewide Plea for Safe Staffing
- Thousands of nurses from Minnesota Nurses Association held informational pickets on June 4, 2025, at hospitals in Duluth and the Twin Cities to highlight staffing concerns.
- The statewide staffing crisis and contract expirations on June 30, 2025, prompted nurses to demand safe nurse-to-patient ratios amid stalled negotiations with hospital administrations.
- Nurses reported unsafe workloads, such as handling six to eight patients alone, increasing adverse patient outcomes and causing moral injury, while hospitals insist staffing decisions are based on patient needs.
- MNA leaders stated that discussions must address safer staffing ratios, not just wages, but hospitals claim the union has yet to present full economic proposals, delaying contract agreements.
- The ongoing conflict suggests continued union pressure and negotiations are essential to resolve unsafe staffing and improve patient care while ensuring fair contracts for nurses.
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Minnesota Nurses Push for Safer Staffing as Contracts Near Expiration
DULUTH, Minn. — The Minnesota Nurses Association, the union representing around 15,000 nurses across the state are pushing to ensure safe staffing. This push comes as the current contracts between the MNA and seven hospital systems across the state come to end, including those of Aspirus St. Luke’s and Essentia Health nurses. “In 2022 nurses fought hard to win some of the best staffing language in the state. We won the right to help create our s…
Duluth News Tribune
Duluth nurses join statewide plea for safe staffing
DULUTH — Nurses and advanced practice providers in Duluth held an informational picket Wednesday at Essentia Health and Aspirus St. Luke’s, calling on administrators to address issues of understaffing, unsafe conditions and patient care over profits. Contracts between the health care systems and the Minnesota Nurses Association are set to expire June 30. Motorists honked their horns as community members and local politicians, including Mayor Ro…
North Memorial Nurses Picket Over Contract Fight
Nurses across Minnesota hit the pavement this week to highlight their ongoing contract fight with hospital executives. Staff at North Memorial Health in Robbinsdale were among those picketing. “Management expects more of us, and to do less with more,” said Joseph Steiger, a registered nurse at North Memorial Health. “All the tasks that they want us to do, there is no possible way for us to do everything that we actually need to do to fully be th…
Nurses picket Twin Cities, Duluth hospitals as 15,000 seek new contracts that prioritize patient safety - Minnesota Nurses Association
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Shannon Cunningham (c) 651-269-1418 Shannon.Cunningham@mnnurses.org (St. Paul) – June 4, 2025 – Thousands of nurses with the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) held an informational picket today at 11 Twin Cities hospitals and two Duluth hospitals to highlight issues at the core of their ongoing contract fight with hospital executives. Nurses across the state are in the midst of a staffing crisis and continue to …
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