Eight-hundred workers at Cabell Huntington (W.V.) Hospital are considering a strike following the expiration of their contract. The workers include licensed practical nurses, lab workers and service and maintenance personnel, according to the Bloomberg Businessweek report. Healthcare, wages and pensions are issued in contract negotiations between the union and hospital.
Nurses, pharmacists, social workers and other union-represented healthcare workers at Sparrow Hospitals in Lansing, Mich., will decide later this week whether to accept a new labor contract or authorize a strike. The Michigan Nurses Association will meet with its members to discuss the hospital’s proposed contract, which may include cuts to retirement and benefit packages.
Nurses at Watsonville (Calif.) Community Hospital, meanwhile, are heading back to work Friday without a contract. The nurses say the issue is not money, but staffing at patient care, according to the Mercury News report.
A staffing issue also prompted National Nurses United, the largest nurses union in the country, to ask Washington D.C.’s health department to investigate understaffing at Washington Hospital Center, according to a Washington Post report.
Read the Bloomberg Businessweek report on Cabell Huntington Hospital.
Read the Mercury News report on Watsonville Community Hospital.
Read the Washington Post report on National Nurses United.
Read the Lansing State Journal report on Sparrow Hospitals.
