Nurses at Ascension Saint Joseph-Joliet (Ill.), part of St. Louis-based Ascension, have voted down the latest contract proposal from hospital management.
Members of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West are set to launch a strike Dec. 20 affecting four Prime Healthcare facilities in Southern California.
Nurses represented by United Food and Commercial Workers 3000 have rejected a tentative labor contract reached earlier this month with Providence Regional Medical Center Everett (Wash.).
Nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., approved a new labor contract Dec. 15, two weeks after reaching a tentative agreement with the hospital following a strike that lasted more than 120 days.
A small group of palliative care physicians who work at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Ore., have voted to join the Pacific Northwest Hospital Medicine Association, a hospitalists union represented by AFT Healthcare and serviced by …