Category: human resources

Residents and fellow physicians at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore have voted to unionize with the Maryland chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, according to union and hospital statements shared with Becker’s.

Hospitalists who work in Bellingham and Sedro-Woolley, Wash., have voted to join the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, according to a June 13 statement from the union, which was shared with Becker’s.

Members of the Oregon Nurses Association are set to begin a three-day strike June 18 at six Providence facilities, in what the union deems the largest nurses’ strike in the state’s history.

Registered nurses at Ascension Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc, Mich., who are represented by Teamsters Local 332, have voted to approve a new labor contract. 

Thousands of employees at Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health and Clinics will receive a stipend benefit to help cover parking expenses at their workplace.

Members of the nation’s largest union of registered nurses are calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs to lift a so-called hiring freeze they say is creating patient safety risks at hospitals across the country. 

Members of Fox Chase RNs and Techs United, an affiliate of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, have approved their first union contracts.

The Committee of Interns and Residents, a local of the Service Employees International Union, has reached a tentative labor contract with New York City on behalf of 2,300 resident physicians and fellows at NYC Health + Hospitals.

New York City-based NYU Langone Health fired a nurse after she gave an acceptance speech for a health system nursing award during which she labeled the conflict in Gaza a “genocide.”

Members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association delivered a petition May 29 to management at Westfield-based Baystate Noble Hospital amid contract negotiations.