by
Heather Mayer, DOTmed News Reporter | June 21, 2010
Minnesota's 12,000 Twin Cities nurses are holding a vote today to determine whether it will carry out another strike against the city's hospitals.
Today's vote comes after a
one-day strike held June 10, which called for hospital employers to renegotiate nurse-to-patient ratios, which the nurses of the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) deem inappropriate.
"Our intention is to get strike authorization and to only actually take action with that if it becomes necessary," Nellie Munn, RN, and a member of MNA's bargaining team, told DOTmed News. "If we're unable to bargain or make any meaningful progress, we'd issue a notice [to strike]."
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The vote asks members to authorize a longer and potentially open-ended strike, on the grounds of unfair labor practices, said Munn.
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