Minnesota Nurses Push for Safer Staffing as Contracts Near Expiration

31 minutes ago Paige Hansen ,

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 staffing grids and even to vote upon them in order to pass them. Why, then, are we known among nurses across the state for being the worst staffed hospital,” Larissa Hubbartt, Aspirus St. Luke’s RN said.

At an informational picket in front of Asprius St. Luke’s on Wednesday, nurses called on the hospital to do