Category: human resources

More than 2,300 healthcare workers at Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Health, the clinical operation of Michigan Medicine, have joined the Service Employees International Union Healthcare Michigan.

The Registered Nurses Professional Association, which represents more than 3,750 nurses in Santa Clara County’s health system in California, is set to begin a three-day strike April 2. 

Members of the New York State Nurses Association are set to strike April 2 at Staten Island University Hospital in New York City.

Members of JNESO District Council 1 have approved a new labor contract with Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua Health. 

Members of the National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United, have approved a new labor contract with UChicago Medicine after the parties reached a tentative deal earlier this month to avert a strike.

Physicians at Salem (Mass.) Hospital, a Mass General Brigham facility, have voted to form a union with Council 93 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Members of the New York State Nurses Association have voted to authorize a strike at Northwell Health’s Staten Island University Hospital in New York City.

Several lawmakers in Pennsylvania have expressed concerns related to contract negotiations on behalf of healthcare workers at Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton, Pa., part of Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger.

The following hospital-union events, including strikes, unionization votes and contract approvals, have been reported by Becker’s in February and March.

Worcester, Mass.-based Saint Vincent Hospital has been cleared by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health after nurses filed more than 600 staffing and safety reports with state and federal agencies.