The purported one-day walkout is still on schedule to happen a week from yesterday, and the CEO of one of the health systems in the Twin Cities is exercising his philanthropic tendencies.
The chief executive of Allina Hospitals and Clinics is voluntarily working without pay until the Twin Cities’ biggest hospital chain reaches an agreement with its nurses.
Allina is the only group so far to make public any action which acknowledges the concern of the 12,000-strong nurses’ union — additionally, addressing the possibility that upper management would take pay furloughs if need be. At best, the move looks like a gesture of goodwill. At worst, a game of PR one-upsmanship against the other hospital and healthcare systems who have yet to appear to address the nursing collective in any public way. | LINK
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