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Article: Nurse strike settlement; Nurses OK contract; 3-year deal gives RNs nearly 20% pay raise, more say in staffing.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 26, 2001
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Byline: Maura Lerner; Jill Burcum; Staff Writers
Nurses voted Monday to end their 23-day walkout against two Fairview hospitals, approving a contract that calls for wage increases of roughly 20 percent over three years and gives them more say in staffing issues.
As a result, about 1,350 registered nurses will return to work Friday at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina and Fairview-University Medical Center's Riverside campus in Minneapolis. The vote brings to a close a bitter labor dispute that had rippled through 13 metro-area hospitals and ultimately idled nurses at two hospitals.
The tentative settlement had been reached Saturday by ...