Category: human resources

A judge ruled that an Iowa hospital worker who was fired after repeatedly violating COVID-19 mitigation policies is not entitled to unemployment benefits, the Iowa Capital Dispatch reported May 11. 

Citing a desire for the best possible patient care and strong worker protections, physicians in California have been involved in several labor actions this year.

Resident and fellow physicians at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles have voted to unionize with the Committee of Interns and Residents.

Members of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West are set to begin a weeklong strike May 9 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Resident and fellow physicians at Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care have voted in favor of representation by the Committee of Interns and Residents, according to a May 3 news release.

Nurses at Stanford and Lucile Packard Children’s hospitals in Palo Alto, Calif., have ratified three-year contracts and will go back to work May 3.

Stanford and Lucile Packard Children’s hospitals in Palo Alto, Calif., and the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement reached a tentative agreement on a three-year contract for about 5,000 nurses represented by the union, according to hospita…

Hundreds of workers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles plan to strike May 9, according to the union that represents them.  

The following hospital-union events have been reported in the last two weeks:

The union representing nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., is accusing the hospital of violating the agreement to end a monthslong strike by pursuing a plan to unilaterally impose 12-hour shifts on its members.