MPR News PM Update

Aug. 22, 2022

More nurses were on the picket line today, this time outside Hennepin Healthcare in downtown Minneapolis.

The union representing nurses says they're trying to draw attention to staffing issues, including difficulty retaining nurses and an overall shortage of staff. Union nurses attribute the problem in part to working conditions and violence against healthcare staff. 

The picket is not related to the strike vote among 15,000 other Minnesota Nurses Association nurses across the state earlier this month – although it involves the same union, which staged informational pickets outside Allina hospitals earlier this summer.  

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