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Nominations for International Union Officers

This Fall the United Steelworkers are having elections for their International officers.  Note, that this is different than our elections for our...
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New Additions to Our Executive Board

Congrats to Samantha Adolfs and Tiffany Shaw on being appointed to our local union's Executive Board! Samantha is an MLT at Essentia Health and was ap...
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Contracts Ratified for Essentia Health Regional Clinics

The tentative agreements between USW 9460 and Essentia were ratified last week. Congrats and thank you to everyone at Ely, Hibbing, Spooner, Hayward a...

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PPE Shortages

If you or your department is suffering from a shortage of PPE equipment, please let us know. We can not only pass that on to Employee-Labor Relations, but our International Union wants to know as well so as to guide our lobbying and legislative efforts.

PPE Shortages

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Union Update for Essentia Health Workers

Multiple media outlets announced last night that Essentia Health was placing 500 employees who are not involved in direct patient care on a special administrative leave. We have not been given a list of job titles and positions that Essentia has included into that number, but we have be

Union Update for Essentia Health Workers

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St. Luke's Child Care Match Program

Below is some information that St. Luke's sent to the union about their Child Care Match program.  We also urge members to check our earlier post about emergency child care options available in Wisconsin and Minnesota through YMCA and the school districts.

St. Luke's Child Care Match Program

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Access to the Union Office

FYI: Starting on March 30 the Duluth Labor Temple, where our union office is located, will be closed to the public due to the pandemic.  However, our office will continue to function and you can reach us by phone or email, but you won't be able to physically stop in.

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