West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging its timekeeping practices resulted in hourly employees being underpaid, according to court documents obtained by Becker’s. Plaintiffs Jennifer Randolph, RN, who worked for UnityPoint for about 16…
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More than 2,200 nurses and healthcare workers at four hospitals operated by Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare plan to strike in September across Illinois, California and Nevada. Seven notes: 1. One-day strikes are planned to run from Sept. 3-4 at Saint…
Workers at Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital have issued a formal strike notice with a target strike date of Sept. 11, SEIU District 1199 said in a statement shared with Becker’s. The bargaining unit covers close to 200 of the approximately…
Primary care physicians, physician associates and nurse practitioners at Corvallis, Ore.-based Samaritan Health Services‘ Samaritan Medical Group have petitioned for a union election with Northwest Medicine United, an AFT Healthcare affiliate. Four things to know: 1. The union filed a…
Primary care physicians and advanced practice providers at Banner Medical Group, part of Phoenix-based Banner Health, are voting on whether to join the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, according to National Labor Relations Board filings. Five things to know:…
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Members of the Montana Nurses Association Local 5 have voted to reject a proposed collective bargaining agreement covering registered nurses at St. James Hospital in Butte, Mont. The local represents 143 registered nurses at the hospital. Ninety-five percent of voting…
Iowa City-based University of Iowa Health Care will change employee parking permit types and rates at some of its locations starting Nov. 1, according to a statement shared with Becker’s, and thousands of people have signed a Change.org petition asking…
A no-confidence vote against a hospital CEO is often — but not always — followed by a fairly quick exit. Becker’s analyzed 12 instances over the past five years of medical staff and nurses’ unions expressing “no confidence” in their…
More than 500 resident and fellow physicians represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents SEIU Healthcare at New York City-based One Brooklyn Health have reached a tentative agreement with the system that includes a 14.5% wage increase over three…
The National Labor Relations Board on Aug. 4 revived a petition to remove the union representing about 563 nurses at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, reversing the decision of a regional director who had blocked it.…