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June 10, 2010

12,000 Nurses in Minnesota Go On Strike
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In labor news, more than 12,000 nurses in Minnesota have begun a
twenty-four-hour strike over staffing, pay and benefits. Fourteen
hospitals in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area will be affected. The strike
was called by the Minnesota Nurses Association, part of the newly formed
National Nurses United union. The union has described the action as the
largest strike in US nursing history.



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