Category: human resources

The union representing nurses at three Ascension hospitals in Texas and Kansas, who recently held one-day strikes, are criticizing the decision to make an in-person children’s Christmas concert virtual amid contract negotiations.

Nurses at three Ascension hospitals in Texas and Kansas began one-day strikes Dec. 6, marking the second strikes for each hospital this year.

After a five-day strike in November, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett (Wash.) and United Food and Commercial Workers 3000 reached a tentative labor contract Dec. 1.

This year has been marked by labor actions across the U.S. From coast to coast, healthcare workers have participated in strikes, citing concerns about issues such as pay, staffing and recruitment. The strikes have involved workers from large health sys…

Members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers plan to strike Dec. 6 at the Sutter Center for Psychiatry in Sacramento, Calif.

A group of gig workers who act as patients at Philadelphia-based Thomas Jefferson University want to unionize, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Dec. 4. 

Resident physicians and fellows at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, which is on the university’s Chicago campus, announced Dec. 1 their efforts to unionize with the Committee of Interns and Residents, a local of the Service Employees In…

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., and United Steelworkers Local 4-200, which represents about 1,700 nurses at the facility, have reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract.

Two unions representing caregivers and service workers at University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center’s Strong Memorial Hospital and River Campus plan to strike Dec. 13. 

Nurses from HCA Healthcare facilities held a rally on Nov. 30 outside of HCA’s West Florida Division Office in Tampa, Fla.