Minnesota

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National Nurses United endorses Peggy Flanagan for Minnesota

NNU today announced its endorsement of Peggy Flanagan for U.S. Senate in Minnesota. As the lieutenant governor of Minnesota, she addressed inequities in health care by advancing programs to boost health outcomes for children, working families, and indigenous communities and communities of color.

National Nurses United
January 15, 2026

News

Today I Walked Into My Last Shift at United

Today I walked into my last shift at United Hospital indefinitely. Monday at 0700 my colleagues will walk out and onto the sidewalk, facing their patient’s windows, to begin an open-ended strike.

Kelsey Swenson, Facebook
September 2, 2016

Blog

Nurses at the front lines of an economics debate? You bet your health!

MINN--From Madison to Wall Street, from St. Paul to Washington D.C., people are seeing nurses dressed in red scrubs, holding not a stethoscope but a megaphone. We are carrying signs. We are marching en masse. And we are raising our voices. This may seem unusual behavior for our profession, but in truth, our history is deeply rooted in social advocacy, as well as the bedside advocacy you’ve come to trust. We’re doing more because we must.

MNA Blog

Legislation

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NNU Endorsements 2016

See a list of legislative endorsements.