Category: human resources

Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center hospital’s unionized nurses and management are facing off in an internal staffing committee election, according to the Times Union.

A California hospital is delaying plans to close its obstetrics department through at least Jan. 31, following pressure from the California Nurses Association and the state’s health department. 

Members of SEIU Healthcare Michigan have approved a new labor contract with Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Health that includes an average wage increase of 23.4% over the life of the deal, according to a Nov. 4 union news release shared with Be…

Workers at Essentia Health-Deer River (Minn.) began a five-day strike Nov. 4.

The United Nurses and Health Care Employees of Hawaii, a chapter of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, began a three-day strike Nov. 4 at Maui Health facilities.

Members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals have approved a three-year labor contract with Warren (Pa.) General Hospital, according to news releases from the hospital and union shared with Becker’s.

The union representing registered nurses at HCA Healthcare’s Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, Calif., accused management of violating the state’s safe staffing law by neglecting to consider patient acuity.

Members of the Illinois Nurses Association, which represents about 1,700 registered nurses at Chicago-based UI Health, have voted to authorize a potential second strike since August.

UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, part of Pittsburgh-based UPMC, and union nurses have agreed to a new contract, which was recently approved.

A federal court has ordered Trinity Health Grand Haven (Mich.) Hospital, part of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, to recognize SEIU Healthcare Michigan as the bargaining agent of about 200 employees and to, upon request, resume negotiations, accord…