Category: human resources

Nurses at the University of Illinois Health system, part of the University of Illinois Chicago, have reached a tentative labor contract after a four-day strike.

Primary care physicians at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s hospitals, both part of Mass General Brigham, are taking steps toward a unionization election.

Members of the New York Professional Nurses Union have voted to approve a tentative agreement with their employer, New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health.

Nurses and licensed professionals at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, Calif., voted Nov. 7 to ratify a new labor contract that includes wage increases.

Nurses at Corewell Health East, part of Corewell Health in southeast Michigan, have voted to join Nurses for Nurses, a committee of Michigan Teamsters Joint Council No. 43. 

The Committee of Interns and Residents, an SEIU local representing 6,400 interns, residents and fellows across the University of California system, has filed a petition to create the largest single physician bargaining unit in the U.S.

The Labor Department has recovered $14,082 in back wages from Little Rock-based Methodist Family Health after determining the behavioral health system illegally terminated a worker on family medical leave.

The Illinois Nurses Association, representing about 1,700 registered nurses at Chicago-based UI Health, launched a strike on Nov. 13 — the second nurse strike at the health system since August.

Nurses at Antelope Valley Medical Center in Lancaster, Calif., plan to strike on Nov. 19.

Regional One Health dismissed an employee after “offensive content” was shared on their personal social media account, the Memphis, Tenn.-based health system confirmed in a statement shared with Becker’s.