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Protecting Nurses During National Nurses Week

During National Nurses Week, we celebrate the heroes who, with skill and compassion, care for the sick. This year, we’re honoring their hard work and dedication by supporting the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, a bill that seeks to raise the bar on safety standards and protect nurses from preventable incidents of violence at work.

Protecting Nurses During National Nurses Week

AFSCME Grievance Against Unilateral Changes to Our Benefits

Hennepin County HR has made significant changes that could lessen the value of our benefits. On March 21, without prior consultation with our AFSCME Local Unions, HR Director Michael Rossman announced an end to the practice of using our Vacation/PTO right before retirement.

AFSCME Grievance Against Unilateral Changes to Our Benefits

A New Voice: May 2019

A New Voice: May 2019

Walleye Season: A Year-Round Labor of Love

While we’re known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes, Minnesota could just have easily adopted the moniker ‘Land of Abundant and Delicious Walleye,’ and no one this side of the Wisconsin border would have batted an eye.

Walleye Season: A Year-Round Labor of Love

Injured on the Job, Corrections Officer Links Safety with Collective Bargaining Rights

The day after he was released from a hospital, a bruised and swollen Kelvin Chung told a state Senate committee that state employees like him need collective bargaining rights to advocate for safety on the job. “I want you to see my face. We need a voice on the job, so this doesn't happen again to anyone else,” said Chung, a corrections officer.

Injured on the Job, Corrections Officer Links Safety with Collective Bargaining Rights