Second Mayo Clinic union in Rochester votes for right to strike

About 87% of union members at Mayo Clinic Hospital Methodist Campus this week approved doing away with arbitration agreements in future contract negotiations.

By Trey Mewes

The Minnesota Star Tribune
April 10, 2025 at 4:29PM


Mayo Clinic in downtown Rochester. (Ayrton Breckenridge/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

A second health care union unit in Rochester has voted for the right to strike in future contract negotiations with Mayo Clinic.

SEIU officials announced Thursday that 87% of frontline health care workers at Mayo Clinic Hospital Methodist Campus supported the ability to strike in future contract negotiations, citing an increasingly frustrating bargaining process with Mayo leadership.

“We are not the ones that are ramping things up,” said Hallie Wallace, a local SEIU negotiator. “It’s the changes in the way that Mayo Clinic is running their hospital and treating their employees over the last 10 years that has been a huge attack on the people who work here.”

Union members, including sterile-processing technicians, patient escorts, surgical techs and maintenance workers among others at Mayo Methodist are in the middle of bargaining for a new three-year contract. This week’s vote doesn’t apply to current bargaining talks, which include an arbitration agreement, but would kick in during the next round of negotiations.

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