Steelworkers Picket the Chisholm Health Center

 This past Friday the nurses at the Chisholm Health Center held an informational picket. The facility is owned by St. Francis and the nurses are represented by United Steelworkers Local 9349. They have been in contract negotiations for nine months. The company is not only refusing to give their workers a raise, but are demanding significant cuts to their benefits package. However they had plenty of money to give management a raise! The union picket was well received by passersby, and the nurses were joined by Steelworkers from the nearby mines, members of United Steelworkers Local 9460 from Duluth, SOAR (Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees) and the United Food & Commercial Workers.