Here are 10 updates on physician, nurse and hospital worker unions in May, as reported by Becker’s:
1. Physicians at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, Wash., voted to join Northwest Medicine United May 27.
2. Registered nurses at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center and Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Long Beach, Calif., and Alhambra (Calif.) Hospital Medical Center went on strike May 22. The one-day strike involved nearly 200 nurses at Alhambra Medical Center and nearly 2,200 nurses at the Long Beach facilities, according to the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.
3. Nurses at UnityPoint Health–Meriter in Madison, Wis., planned a five-day strike that began May 27, according to a post on Service Employees International Union Wisconsin’s Facebook page. SEIU Wisconsin represents nearly 935 registered nurses at the hospital, which is part of a joint operating agreement between UnityPoint Health and Madison-based UW Health. West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health employs more than 29,000 workers total across three states.
4. Members of Service Employees International Union1199 New England began an open-ended strike May 15 at Care New England’s Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I.
5. About 980 resident and fellow physicians at the University of Minnesota are now represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents. The Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services certified the union as its bargaining representative on May 9.
6. Approximately 1,000 members of the Service Employees International Union 1199NW and the Union of American Physicians and Dentists began a five-day strike May 12 at PeaceHealth Medical Group clinics and Bellingham, Wash.-based PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center.
7. Physicians and other clinician faculty members at West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., voted to unionize May 8.
8. Resident physicians, interns and fellows at Massachusetts General Brigham reached a tentative labor contract with the health system. The three-year agreement, reached May 6, would cover more than 2,600 housestaff represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents, a local of SEIU.
9. Members of the Ohio Nurses Association, an AFT affiliate, voted to ratify a new labor contract with ProMedica Defiance (Ohio) Regional Hospital.
10. Members of the University Professional and Technical Employees and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees unions held a statewide strike May 1 across University of California campuses, hospitals and laboratories, including Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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