Employees Picket Psychiatric Hospital over Safety Issues

Employees picketed a Minnesota psychiatric hospital last week, saying more needs to be done to protect workers from violent patients. The state Occupational Safety and Health Division fined the Minnesota Security Hospital in St. Peter $4,900 last month for failing to implement proper safeguards to protect workers, according to a report Friday in The Free Press. Union members picketed outside the hospital gates on Thursday to draw public attention to the hospital's safety record. Charles Hottinger, a union steward for the hospital's security staff, told the newspaper that the picketin...