Hundreds of Allina doctors authorize open-ended strike as negotiations enter third year

[Omaha Steve]

Dr. Kara Larson chants outside Allina’s Coon Rapids clinic on a picket line with her newly unionized colleagues as contract negotiations stall. Physicians, physician assistants and nurse practioners picketed outside four Allina clinics on June 3, 2025 in a first for Minnesota. (Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer)

By: Max Nesterak
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March 6, 2026 2:40 pm

Some 650 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners authorized their union to call an open-ended strike across 57 Allina Health clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin, as negotiations over a first labor contract governing wages and benefits enter the third year.

Union leaders have not yet called a strike, which requires a 10-day notice, hoping that the threat alone will be enough to jumpstart negotiations that have failed to produce a contract after more than 50 bargaining sessions.

“Allina has really not come to the table with proposals that would keep primary care and urgent care sustainable,” said Dr. Matt Hoffman, a union leader and family physician at Allina Vadnais Heights Clinic, at a news conference on Friday.

Hoffman said 90% of union members who voted supported authorizing a strike.

FULL story: https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/hundreds-of-allina-doctors-authorize-open-ended-strike-as-negotiations-enter-third-year/

[justaprogressive]

1. AAARRRRRGHHH! K'n'R

What's with the trend of companies bargaining in BAD FAITH with their skilled workers?