The future of worker power can be found in Minnesota
Nursing home workers in the Great North won the right to bargain with their employers and the state via a standards board, and it’s a major win for American workers.
Nursing home workers in Minnesota have been fighting for better pay since 2015. That’s when the state government started funding their employers based on average costs without dictating how much workers themselves should get. “It’s impossible to be a good employer,” notes Jamie Gulley, president of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa. Any company that pays above the average loses money; the ones who make the most profit are those who short workers the most. “The incentives,” he adds, “are all wrong.”
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