Here are 15 updates on unionization efforts by physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers in April, as reported by Becker’s:
1. On April 23, Northwest Medicine United filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to become the union representation for physicians at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, Wash.
2. Members of the National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United, called for a third strike at University Medical Center in New Orleans amid contract negotiations. Union members delivered a strike notice to management on April 21 and are preparing for a May 1 strike date. The union and hospital began negotiating a new labor contract in March 2024, and UMC nurses have struck twice, once in October and again in February.
3. The NLRB sided with primary care physicians at Mass General Brigham’s Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s hospitals by allowing the proposed 400-member bargaining unit to proceed to union election.
4. Members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association at Beverly (Mass.) Hospital and Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester have approved a new three-year labor contract.
5. Registered nurses at CommonSpirit Longmont (Colo.) United Hospital approved a new three-year labor contract.
6. Members of the University Professional and Technical Employees and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees unions plan to participate in a statewide strike May 1 at University of California campuses, major laboratories and medical centers.
7. The Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services certified the Committee of Interns and Residents, a local of the Service Employees International Union, as the exclusive representative for more than 200 resident physicians at Minneapolis-based Hennepin County Medical Center.
8. Members of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania at Geisinger’s Luzerne County facilities reached a new labor contract with the health system.
The agreement covers 800 nurses from Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., as well as Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre, a campus of GWVMC, and Geisinger Healthplex CenterPoint in Pittston, Pa. The three facilities are part of Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger, a system with more than 10 hospital campuses and more than 25,000 employees.
9. Members of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa at the Mayo Clinic Hospital Methodist Campus in Rochester, Minn., voted to cancel a voluntary supplemental “no strike” agreement in future labor contract negotiations for approximately 600 workers.
10. Nurses represented by the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement approved new labor contracts with Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, both based in Palo Alto, Calif.
11. Registered nurses at UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, Ill., approved a new four-year labor contract with their employer.
12. Registered nurses at San Leandro and Alameda hospitals in California approved a new five-year labor contract. The agreement covers more than 380 nurses at the hospitals, according to their union, the California Nurses Association.
13. Workers at Providence’s Healdsburg Hospital in California voted to join the National Union of Healthcare Workers. The vote covers nearly 200 workers at the 43-bed hospital, including registered nurses, nursing assistants, respiratory therapists, housekeepers and medical technicians
14. Employees at Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Office of Clinical Research in Philadelphia on March 26 voted to ratify their first union contract after 15 months of negotiations.
15. Members of the University Professional and Technical Employees-Communications Workers of America Local 9119 went on strike April 1 at University of California campuses and medical centers, with members of the AFSCME Local 3299 joining in solidarity.
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