Nurses strike in the Dououth region, citing the suspended contract negotiations

About 300 nurses and other medical staff were strike in six health facilities in the Dououth Essenta area on Tuesday.

The workers, representatives of the Minnesota nurse, are negotiating the first trade union contracts and say the bargaining is very slow.

“It seems as if they were suspended, and we were a kind of left without any other option,” said Kim Volkart, a nurse at Solvay Hospice House in Doloth, where the employees last year.

In addition to the Solvay Hospice House, the workers look at Essentia Health Street, the second street, the third street, and the superior clinics, and at the Miller Hill Center for Ambulance Surgery.

In Solvay, Volkart said that employees are looking for protection and paid vacation for workers who were assaulted or the injured in the job, which she had happened to her and several co -workers. She said that workers in other facilities are paying for better health care and improving employment levels, among other protection.

“We need our patients to have a good place for care – by people who have fair contracts and are not at odds with the employer,” said Volcar.

Essentia Health said in a statement that the first union contracts usually take 18 months to negotiate,; The company was negotiating with the amazing workers for less than a year.

Essentia House House Solvay was closed during its strike and the transfer of patients to other care.

Hundreds of other health care workers in approximately 70 Essential facilities intend to strike on Thursday.

The nurses with twin port hospitals reached a preliminary agreement with Essential Health last week to avoid a strike; The nurses of the twin metro area in the Metro area also reached initial agreements with their employers.