Category: human resources

Nearly 1,000 physicians at four NYC Health + Hospitals facilities in New York City plan to strike Jan. 13.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence is preparing for thousands of workers to begin striking Jan. 10 at its facilities in Oregon. 

Nearly 5,000 front-line healthcare workers from Providence Oregon hospitals plan to begin an open-ended strike Jan. 10.

Union representatives are challenging Minneapolis-based Hennepin Healthcare over its decision to promote a nurse occupying a labor-designated seat on its oversight board to a management role just weeks later, according to The Minnesota Star Tribune.

Members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United and hospital board members have approved a new four-year labor contract between the union and Salinas Valley Health Medical Center.

Registered nurses at Mass General Brigham’s Salem (Mass.) Hospital have reached a tentative labor contract with management. 

Members of the Committee of Interns and Residents and George Washington University Hospital in Washington have reached a tentative labor agreement, averting a potential strike.

Nurses at Lower Bucks Hospital in Bristol, Pa., part of Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare, have approved a new three-year labor contract after 15 months of negotiations.

Nurses and healthcare professionals at Lansing-based University of Michigan Health-Sparrow have voted to authorize a strike if management and the union representing them fail to reach an agreement. 

One-day strikes and other “fixed-duration strikes” — defined as those with a short duration and predetermined time limits — are common at hospitals.