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May 29, 2001
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UAN Stands with Twin Cities Nurses
Washington, DC -- As some 7,700 Minnesota Nurses Association RNs in 12 hospitals across Minneapolis-St. Paul prepare for what would be the largest RN strike in history, United American Nurses (UAN) Chair Cheryl Johnson, RN issued the following statement:
"Each and every of the 100,000-plus RNs from the 26 nurses associations of the United American Nurses stands with our sister and brother nurses in the Twin Cities in their fight for better and safer patient care. Their courage in fighting for the future of the nursing profession is both inspirational and a call to action for all of us. We are with them in the hospital emergency rooms and ICUs, and we will be with them on the picket lines. Their fight is our fight.
"Registered nurses across the country are committed to making our hospitals better places for patients and nurses alike. Nurses in Minnesota are using the powerful voice of their union to make sure that the citizens in the Twin Cities are guaranteed the best patient care possible the next time they have to check into a hospital.
"As nurses, we see the great risk both nurses and patients run every day due to unsafe and inadequate staffing and dangerous working conditions. If we are to solve the nurse staffing crisis and keep qualified, experienced staff nurses in hospitals caring for the patients who desperately need them, then we must fight to make hospitals better – and safer – places to work. Through solidarity, we can and we will improve patient care conditions and our health care system."
The United American Nurses, the labor arm of the American Nurses Association, counts as members the Minnesota Nurses Association, plus nurses associations from 23 other states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and is made up of more than 100,000 RNs nationwide.
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