Category: human resources

Nurses, mental health specialists and other healthcare professionals at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., voted to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 93.

Registered nurses will hold actions April 27 at nine Tenet hospitals in California, according to the union that represents them. 

About 5,000 nurses at Stanford and Lucile Packard Children’s hospitals in Palo Alto, Calif., who are members of the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement, will go on strike April 25, according to the union.

UH Geneva (Ohio) Medical Center, part of Cleveland-based University Hospitals, has reneged on a promise that nurses would receive a COVID-19 appreciation bonus in April, according to the union that represents them.

Registered nurses at Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare’s Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., held a speak-out April 21 over concerns about staffing and patient care, according to ABC affiliate WLOS.

Sacramento-based Sutter Health said nurses who went on strike April 18 will not be allowed to return to work until the morning of April 23, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital administrators have notified union leaders that its nurse members who strike later in April risk losing pay and health benefits, according to Palo Alto Weekly.

Nurses and healthcare workers at Sutter Health facilities in Northern California will strike April 18 to call for safe staffing and health and safety protections, according to the unions that represent them. 

Amid the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, inadequate staffing, workplace violence and moral and mental distress are increasingly challenges for nurses, according to a national survey released April 14.

Thousands of nurses at Stanford and Lucile Packard Children’s hospitals in Palo Alto, Calif., will strike beginning April 25.