Nurses at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center Hospital have reached their first contract with the New York State Nurses Association, according to hospital and union statements. 

Registered nurses at Pittsburgh-based West Penn Hospital have voted to authorize their negotiating committee to issue a strike notice amid contract negotiations, according to hospital and union statements. 

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., is reducing select services because of a nurses strike that has been ongoing since March 8.

More than 500 nurses at Mount Clemens, Mich.- based McLaren Macomb have agreed to a tentative three-year labor contract, according to statement from the hospital and union.

More than 1,500 healthcare workers have voted to sign a three-year contract with Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital in Los Angeles.

Workers at three Tenet Healthcare hospitals in Southern California have authorized a strike that could begin as early as August, according to the union that represents them. 

Two federal courts in neighboring states have issued conflicting rulings in cases involving staffing disputes at HCA Healthcare's Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, Kan., and Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo. 

Workers from Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente will protest July 20 at Kaiser Woodland Hills (Calif.) Medical Center against the outsourcing of call center jobs to other states, according to the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West.

Nurses negotiating a contract at Mount Clemens, Mich.- based McLaren Macomb have issued a 10-day strike notice.

A nearly yearlong unionization effort by security officers at Dignity Health facilities in California has received support from city and county lawmakers in San Francisco. 

Registered nurses at 10 HCA Healthcare hospitals in Florida have approved a new contract that includes COVID-19 pandemic safety provisions and a focus on safe staffing, according to the union that represents them.  

Technical workers at Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas have voted to reject continued union representation by SEIU Local 1107, according to the hospital and the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.

Cook County workers in Chicago have reached a tentative agreement with the county, ending an 18-day strike that began in June, union officials said.  

Citing concerns about staffing and patient safety, registered nurses at Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital in Los Angeles plan to strike July 13 and July 14, according to hospital and union statements.

Sutter Health employees represented by SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West are set to rally outside eight California hospitals throughout July to protest staffing levels, wait times and workplace safety problems. 

Chicago-based Cook County Health will add 300 nurses under a new contract approved July 2, following nine months of negotiations and a one-day nurse strike that ended June 25.

Registered nurses at HCA's Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., ratified their first union contract July 2.

A group of federal lawmakers is questioning Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare's use of taxpayer funds, including federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act grants and loans, as nurses at Tenet's Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., continue a strike that began March 8.

Nurses at Chicago-based Cook County Health have reached a tentative contract with management after a one-day strike that ended June 25, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Nurses at Mount Clemens, Mich.- based McLaren Macomb have authorized their union bargaining team to issue a 10-day strike notice if they deem it necessary amid contract negotiations, according to June 29 hospital and union statements.