Category: human resources

Nurses employed by Philadelphia-based Temple University to conduct Temple Health’s research initiatives have approved a new four-year labor contract.

Nurses represented by United Food and Commercial Workers 3000 have approved a new labor contract with Providence Regional Medical Center Everett (Wash.).

Members of the New York State Nurses Association and Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Valley Stream (N.Y.) have reached a tentative labor contract, averting a looming strike.

Over the past few weeks, arbitrators have ordered New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System to pay more than $2 million in fines for understaffing nurses in units at three of its hospitals, the New York State Nurses Association said in a Feb. 20 ne…

Nurses at UChicago Medicine voted Feb. 20 to authorize a strike if negotiations between management and the nurses’ union fail to reach an agreement. 

Members of the New York State Nurses Association and Northwell Health’s Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, N.Y., reached a tentative labor contract on Feb. 15. 

Companies and organizations across the U.S., including hospitals and health systems, consistently focus on retaining their workers.

Last year was marked by labor actions across the U.S. From coast to coast, healthcare workers participated in strikes, citing concerns about issues such as pay, staffing and recruitment, and such actions have continued into 2024.

Unionized nurses at Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent are asking for the reinstatement of a nurse they say was “unjustly fired” without cause. 

Members of the New York State Nurses Association at Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Valley Stream (N.Y.) and Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, N.Y., plan to strike beginning Feb. 21.