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Twin Cities hospitals, nurses reach tentative contracts; strike still possible in Duluth

Nurses picketed outside M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina and other hospitals in the Twin Cities and Duluth areas June 4 after negotiations with their hospitals failed to produce new three-year contracts.

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