MINNEAPOLIS – Hundreds of nurses are rallying outside of the U.S. Bank corporate office in downtown Minneapolis over policies they say have created a “crisis of care.”
Nurses are placing the blame on executives, who they say are pushing disastrous corporate healthcare policies onto hospitals and workers at the bedside.
Mary Turner, the president of the Minnesota Nurses Association, spoke at the rally, sharing that it really is life or death.
“I don’t ever, ever want to get a call again with a nurse telling me that she almost died today at work,” Turner said. “But unfortunately, that is going to happen over and over and over again.”
The rally comes a month after the historic three-day strike that saw 15,000 nurses in Minnesota leave their job to fight for better conditions.
Since the strike, there have been negotiations between both sides. However, there has yet to be an agreement.
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