Nurses and caregivers at Swedish Medical Center sites in the Seattle area ended their three-day walkout Jan. 31 and attempted to return to their jobs at Swedish Cherry Hill, Ballard, Issaquah and ambulatory care centers in Redmond and Mill Creek, according to the union that represents them.

Not all nurses and caregivers striking at Swedish Medical Center sites in the Seattle area will return to work at the same time, The Seattle Times reports.

Nurses and caregivers are continuing their three-day strike Jan. 29 at Swedish Medical Center sites in the Seattle area.

The University of California and representatives of about 16,000 unionized patient care workers have reached a tentative contract agreement.

Nurses and caregivers at Seattle-based Swedish Medical Center have begun a three-day strike, citing concerns about patient safety.

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Seattle-based Swedish Medical Center will shut down two emergency departments during a three-day strike at its sites in the Seattle area, the medical center announced.

Swedish Medical Center has hired tactical security guards with body cameras to prepare for a three-day strike at its sites in the Seattle area, according to an email to Swedish employees obtained by Becker's Hospital Review.

About 6,000 union healthcare workers have reached a new contract agreement with Dallas-based Steward Health Care, The Boston Globe reports.

Becker's Hospital Review reported the following hospital-union events in January.

Nurses and Santa Clara County in California have approved a new contract agreement, the Morgan Hill Times reported.

Nurses and other healthcare workers at Swedish Medical Center sites in the Seattle area are moving forward with a strike, according to the union that represents them.

Two labor unions have pledged to derail a plan to replace the District of Columbia's only public hospital on the Southeast Side unless its members can keep their jobs and union contract, Bloomberg Law reports.

Healthcare workers at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., have approved a new three-year contract agreement, according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

Nurses at MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center in Sioux City, Iowa, have authorized their bargaining committee to call a strike and rejected MercyOne's most recent contract offer, according to the Sioux City Journal.

Nurses at Astria Health's hospital in Yakima, Wash., are urging a bankruptcy court judge to reconsider the hospital's closure, according to the union that represents them.

Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center seeks to dismiss a union lawsuit accusing the hospital of federal human trafficking law violations linked to its program to recruit nurses from the Philippines to work in the hospital, according to the Albany Business Review.

Workers at three Providence hospitals in Washington state reached tentative agreements Jan. 8 with hospital management, according to the union that represents them.

Registered nurses have filed an opposition in bankruptcy court alleging that Verity Health System is failing to follow California laws regarding its plans to close a 366-bed Los Angeles hospital. 

Nurses at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., have reached a tentative agreement with hospital management, according to the union that represents them.