The SEIU announced Thursday morning that they will hold a one-day strike on December 19. Seventy-nine SEIU housekeepers, CNAs, sterile processing staff and utilities and materials management workers will picket outside of Mayo Clinic Health System’s Albert Lea campus in Minnesota. The union has filed complaints with the NLRB since the two sides began negotiations in 2015, but the board recently sided with Mayo Clinic and dismissed the complaints. The issue at hand is a contract clause that permits Mayo to make changes to employee benefits without bargaining with the union. Mayo has threatened the workers with a Christmas lockout, but SEIU president Jamie Gulley said in a speech he has faith that the workers won’t be intimidated by threats from Mayo executives.
See "SEIU plans 1-day strike at Mayo's Albert Lea hospital", Brett Boese, Post Bulletin, December 7, 2017