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Regina Medical Center workers authorize second strike

By Paul Demko | 12.11.08 | 3:55 pm

Union workers at Regina Medical Center voted last night to authorize a five-day strike. The roughly 230 employees, which includes laundry workers, nursing assistants and x-ray technicians, are locked in a contract dispute with the Hastings facility.

No progress in Hastings labor dispute

By Paul Demko | 12.04.08 | 1:25 pm

Since a two-day strike last month, there has been no progress in the contract dispute between Regina Medical Center and 230 workers represented by Service Employees International Union Healthcare Minnesota. No talks have been held since the works stoppage and none are scheduled. “They continue to tell members of the media they’re willing to meet, and yet they have not called us,” says Ryan Nagle,