Planned Parenthood, SEIU Reach Tentative Agreement On 1st Contract For Union Workers In Minnesota, Iowa, Dakotas

By Stephen Swanson, CBS Minnesota

January 10, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — The country's leading reproductive health care provider and a majority of its newly unionized employees in Minnesota and several other Midwestern states have reached a tentative agreement on its first contract.

Service Employees International Union Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa (SEIU) announced Tuesday that the agreement with Planned Parenthood North Central States (PPNCS) was reached during their 37th bargaining session, with the final one wrapping up in the middle of the night after almost 14 hours of negotiations.

Ninety percent of PPNCS's 430 employees in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska voted in favor of joining SEIU in July 2022. Those employees work in nearly 100 different roles at 28 clinics across the upper and central Midwest, according to SEIU.

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