Category: human resources

Essentia Health workers' strike enters 2nd month

Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health and SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa will reconvene negotiations Jan. 22-23 as employees continue an open-ended strike that began Dec. 9.

UMH-Sparrow workers reach deal, cancel strike: 3 updates

Members of the Michigan Nurses Association have reached a tentative agreement with Lansing-based University of Michigan Health-Sparrow, canceling a five-day strike that had been set to begin Jan. 20.

Harvard study urges regulatory reform amid physician strikes: 4 notes

Harvard University researchers are calling for urgent regulatory reform to address the increasing number of physician strikes in the U.S.

Providence files complaint against striking hospitalists

Providence Medical Group is accusing the Pacific Northwest Hospital Medicine Association, affiliated with the Oregon Nurses Association, of failing to bargain in good faith.

NYC Health + Hospitals physicians reach tentative deal

NYC Health + Hospitals physicians have reached a tentative agreement after postponing their previously planned strike.

At Temple, 2nd Philadelphia physician group votes to unionize

Resident physicians and fellows at Philadelphia-based Temple University Hospital have voted to join the Committee of Interns and Residents, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, the committee said in a Jan. 10 Facebook post, becomi…

Providence workers begin open-ended strike: 9 things to know

Nearly 5,000 employees, including nurses, physicians, nurse practitioners, physician associates and nurse midwives, began an open-ended strike Jan. 10 at Providence hospitals and clinics across Oregon.

Einstein physicians vote to unionize

Resident physicians and fellows at Einstein Health Network, part of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health, voted 356-35 to join the Committee of Interns and Residents, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, the union said in a Ja…

Mayo Clinic nurses vote to remove union

Nurses at Mayo Clinic Health System in Fairmont, Minn., have voted to remove the Minnesota Nurses Association as their bargaining representative.

UMH-Sparrow caregivers set 5-day strike

Members of the Michigan Nurses Association are set to begin a five-day strike Jan. 20 at Lansing-based University of Michigan Health-Sparrow.