We work at Hennepin County Medical Center and we are shocked by our CEO’s account of 200 layoffs. We’re deeply concerned that the elimination of positions will compromise the quality of care that patients deserve.
Robert Grabko, one of a handful of people in Minnesota nationally registered both as a pulmonary function technologist and an asthma educator, is among those laid off by Hennepin County Medical Center.
Hennepin County Medical Center worker Karma Gangkhar says the process of laying off workers at the facility has resulted in "messed-up shifts and assignments."
Hennepin County Medical Center Office Specialist Regina Dickson describes how she feels discriminated against for her age, race and union activism.
Workers at Hennepin County Medical Center are speaking out about the effects of some 200 layoffs at the downtown Minneapolis hospital and clinic.
For two decades, Hennepin County Medical Center environmental services worker Marlon Gaston has been making the hospital clean and safe for patients. Gaston, a Local 977 steward, is nearing retirement, and AFSCME believes he’s being discriminated against due to his age and union activity. This is his story.
More than 1,200 members of AFSCME Council 5, the largest union of state employees, participated in the annual Day on the Hill at the Minnesota Legislature Tuesday.
As part of an on-going campaign to stop the privatization of Medicare and Social Security, union and Working America members delivered petitions signed by several hundred Minnesotans to the St. Paul office of U.S. Senator Al Franken Monday.
Four months after their shocking defeat in the 2016 election, leaders of the nation’s unions are still struggling to figure out why – and what to do next.
AFSCME members and supporters marched outside Hennepin County Medical Center Friday, protesting the layoff of 131 workers as HCMC claims to face “financial challenge.”
Workers are organizing through unions and other organizations to improve their lives. Union representation provides a voice on the job and the opportunity to improve wages, benefits and working conditions.
Labor still lacks coordinated approach to organizing the South