Category: human resources

MaineHealth staff call for management ouster at home health arm

Registered nurses and clinicians with MaineHealth Care at Home in Portland, Maine, are calling for the removal of the home health services agency’s management team.

Strike nurse faces backlash after viral TikTok

On July 5, a TikTok user posted a video detailing a “day in the life” of a strike nurse. Viewers had mixed opinions. 

Workers to hold pickets at 50 Kaiser facilities

Members of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions plan to hold pickets to protest what they say is a short staffing crisis and its effects on patients and caregivers. 

TeamHealth ER physicians, PAs at Ascension Detroit hospital vote to unionize

A group of emergency room physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and lead advanced practice clinicians at Ascension St. John Hospital in Detroit has voted to join the Greater Detroit Association of Emergency Physicians, according to the …

New Jersey hospital nurses move toward strike

Nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., have voted to authorize a strike, according to a hospital statement shared with Becker’s July 11.

Nurses at UHS hospital vote to unionize

Nurses at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., have voted to join the District of Columbia Nurses Association, the union said in a news release on its Facebook page.

Workers plan picket at 12 Tenet hospitals

Members of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West plan to picket starting July 11 at 12 Tenet Healthcare facilities in California.

HCA workers at 19 hospitals approve contract

Members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East at 19 HCA Healthcare hospitals in Florida have approved a new three-year contract. 

Contract approved at New York system provides up to 18% wage increases

Members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East at Dunkirk, N.Y.-based Brooks-TLC Hospital System recently approved a new three-year contract. 

McLaren hospital nurses approve new contract, win 19% raises

Nurses at McLaren Lapeer (Mich.) Region Hospital have voted to ratify a new three-year contract, including wage increases averaging 19 percent across its lifetime.