Lafayette City Council member Tonya Briggs remembered Being asked to write a eulogy for someone you care about, someone who was only 44, a mother of three
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A Minnesota arbitrator has decided that Allina Health must reinstate former nurse Cliff Willmeng, RN, but it does not have to issue him back pay.
The arbitrator also ruled that the system s United Hospital didn t fail to maintain a safe work environment by dictating nurses use their own scrubs early in the pandemic.
Willmeng was fired last May for wearing hospital-issued scrubs instead of his own. A state nursing board case against him was dropped recently, and he still has an active lawsuit against Allina.
The arbitration ruling stems from a union grievance raised by the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) against Allina for firing Willmeng without just cause, which claimed United s uniform code policy violated standard nursing practices.
Minnesota Workers Took on the National Guard to Defend Black Lives
Members of the Minnesota National Guard stand guard outside the Brooklyn Center police headquarters as protesters gather on April 13, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.
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On Sunday, April 11, a cop pulled Daunte Wright over for air fresheners hanging from the rearview mirror and expired tags. Then she murdered him, saying she couldnât tell her gun from her taser. The killing happened 20 minutes down the road from where Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck.
Protests have erupted night after night since then, in Brooklyn Center where Wright was murdered and beyond. The repression by the mayor and governor has been savage. On Friday the 16th, for example, the Minnesota National Guard and the cops beat and gassed the protesters against police violence, shot them with rubber bullets, and then the cops arrested over 100 people. The National Guard had already b