On Wednesday afternoon, hundreds of nurses gathered outside the Allina Health headquarters near Allina Health’s Abbot Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis to protest proposed cuts to their health care and pensions, and patient and workplace safety. With their current contract set to expire at the end of this month, Allina Health has demanded that the next contract remove their current union health care plans and replace them with Allina Health’s own, more expensive program which only provides care at Allina Health hospitals.
— source wsws.org