Category: human resources

Six health systems are forming a human resources alliance to help tackle healthcare’s top workforce challenges. 

Resident physicians at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington seek to form a local chapter with the Committee of Interns and Residents, according to union and hospital statements.

About 300 nurses at University of Southern California Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale have approved a contract agreement with hospital management, according to hospital and union statements. 

Nurses at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital in Kittanning, Pa., have submitted a strike notice to hospital management.

After previously denying end-of-year bonuses to unionized registered nurses at two Bassett Healthcare Network facilities in New York, Bassett will provide a one-time gratitude bonus to these workers, The Daily Star reported Feb. 28. 

Nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., voted to keep their union and representation by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, according to Feb. 28 hospital and union statements.

Ascension Living at Our Lady of Peace workers in Lewiston, N.Y., have issued a 10-day strike notice to their employer. 

As employers prepare for workers to return to offices amid loosened COVID-19 restrictions, they can expect an array of feelings from workers, including excitement, anxiety and fear, experts told USA Today.

Front-line physicians at Stanford (Calif.) Health Care are demanding that the health system voluntarily recognize the Committee of Interns and Residents as their exclusive representative for collective bargaining.

In 2021, there were 265 work stoppages in the U.S. involving about 140,000 workers, and healthcare and social assistance workers comprised more than half of all workers involved in the strikes, according to a new “Labor Action Tracker” report&nbsp…