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Sign the Petition in Support of Essentia Workers!

The 1,000 workers covered by the United Steelworker Local 9460's "Green Book" contract are locked in a tough negotiations battle with Essentia Health. As usual, Essentia is refusing to offer its workers a decent raise - while turning around and giving another massive raise to their CEO, David Herman.  But in addition to that, the company is insisting that workers accept new contract language that would turn everyone into a giant float pool that could be sent to any facility to do any job.  That means if you're a West Duluth Clinical Assistant, you could suddenly be sent to work downtown.  Or if you're a Financial Counselor, you could suddenly be sent to empty trash cans with Environmental Services.  This would not only be massively disruptive to workers' lives, but it also poses serious concerns about quality of patient care.  Workers learn a whole range of skills by working in the same department day after day, skills which somebody who is parachuted in for the day can't possibly pick up during a five minute orientation.  

As can be expected, workers are outraged.  They have written and are circulating a petition against these proposals.  We are asking everyone to please sign and share it.  Here is the link: https://shorturl.at/oS9tB

If you would like to download and print out a PDF flier about the petition, here is a link for that: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17t0iHnQmYmgMGlPmou2eGHYzL-RMewqJ/view?usp=sharing
 

Essentia Health, your workers deserve better!

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