Category: human resources

The Committee of Interns and Residents, an SEIU local representing 6,400 interns, residents and fellows across the University of California system, has filed a petition to create the largest single physician bargaining unit in the U.S.

The Labor Department has recovered $14,082 in back wages from Little Rock-based Methodist Family Health after determining the behavioral health system illegally terminated a worker on family medical leave.

The Illinois Nurses Association, representing about 1,700 registered nurses at Chicago-based UI Health, launched a strike on Nov. 13 — the second nurse strike at the health system since August.

Nurses at Antelope Valley Medical Center in Lancaster, Calif., plan to strike on Nov. 19.

Regional One Health dismissed an employee after “offensive content” was shared on their personal social media account, the Memphis, Tenn.-based health system confirmed in a statement shared with Becker’s.

AFSCME Local 3299, a union representing University of California service and patient care workers, has scheduled a systemwide strike for Nov. 20 and 21.  

Members of the University Professional and Technical Employees at the University of California San Francisco are set to strike Nov. 20 and 21. 

Kadlec Regional Medical Center will raise wages for 1,100 workers as part of a newly approved labor contract, according to an SEIU Healthcare 1199 news release shared with Becker’s.

Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center hospital’s unionized nurses and management are facing off in an internal staffing committee election, according to the Times Union.

A California hospital is delaying plans to close its obstetrics department through at least Jan. 31, following pressure from the California Nurses Association and the state’s health department.