AUTUMN IS HER name. She's 23 years old, a gal from Nebraska. She arrived in Alger County a couple of years ago with her father. She hadn't been able to get along with her mother and stepfather back home so she thought she'd give the U.P. a try with her dad. Start a new life for herself. Didn't work out. She and her ... Continue Reading
Hospital Stalemate, Hope for the Homeless, City Ordinance Controversy, Roundabout Costs, Wendy’s Modernizes, Burger King Builds, Salt Water Near Lake Superior, and the Continuing Coffee Craze
SO THE NURSES are back at work after a three day "lockout" that was technically not a lockout. It's just, we're told, that UP Health System-Marquette didn't need the nurses those three days since they were already staffed with replacements. Semantics. The nurses wanted to return to their jobs. They weren't allowed to ... Continue Reading
The View from the Sidewalk
SARAH BANNAN'S ONE of those nurses in red shirts walking outside the hospital yesterday and again today. Holding a sign. Waving at honking cars. Putting in her unpaid, eight hour shift on the sidewalk even though she'd much rather be inside the hospital taking care of her patients in the cardiac unit. She needs the ... Continue Reading
The Latest on the Nurses’ Strike, Tysen Benz Update, Graffiti and Garbage in the Woods, Father Marquette’s Facelift, Coffee Shop Delay, Wine Bar Lunches, and Film Festival Expectations Rising
NO BREAKTHROUGH ANNOUNCED yet in the labor dispute at UP Health System-Marquette. At last word, most of the 400 nurses in the union are still expected to walk off their jobs and join a picket line at 7 am Thursday. One final negotiating session between hospital management and the union is scheduled for today. The main ... Continue Reading
Surprise Negotiations in Hospital-Nurses Dispute
TWO LENGTHY, UNSCHEDULED negotiation sessions over the weekend between the nurses union and UP Health System-Marquette may have opened up lines of communication, but they may be "too little too late," to avoid a strike, according to a union spokesman. The two sessions each lasted about seven hours, according to union ... Continue Reading