Nurses and technicians at Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital in Ellsworth are demanding a new contract with higher nurse staffing levels and constant security, according to CBS affiliate WGME. 

Nurses at Chino (Calif.) Valley Medical Center plan to walk off the job amid contract negotiations, according to The Press-Enterprise.

Becker's Hospital Review reported the following hospital-union events since Oct. 10.

About 4,000 mental health clinicians of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente are prepared to hold a five-day strike in November at more than 100 clinics and medical facilities statewide, the union that represents them announced.

Workers have ratified a contract agreement between Wailuku, Hawaii-based Maui Health System and the union that represents about 470 of them, according to The Maui News.

Mount Sinai Hospital unionized healthcare staff joined Chicago Public Schools workers Oct. 19 as they continued their strike amid contract talks with city negotiators, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Fifty-seven thousand workers in California have ratified a four-year contract agreement with Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, according to the union that represents them.

A union is accusing Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center of trafficking law violations related to its program to recruit nurses from the Philippines to work in the hospital.

Mental health clinicians of Kaiser Permanente protested Oct. 13 and Oct. 14 what they called barriers to mental health access outside two of the healthcare giant's facilities in Oakland, Calif., and Los Angeles.

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

Changing hospital working condition and consolidation are among the factors that may lead to even more nurse walkouts in Chicago and across the country, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Registered nurses at UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, Ill., have voted to unionize, according to a news release from the National Nurses Organizing Committee/ National Nurses United.

Workers at Staten Island (N.Y.) University Hospital picketed Oct. 2 to protest what they say is a push by hospital management to decertify recently unionized physician assistants, according to The Chief-Leader.

Reno, Nev.-based Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center has reached a three-year contract agreement with nurses, according to the Reno Gazette Journal. 

Warren (Pa.) General Hospital and unionized workers have reached a new labor deal affecting 130 nurses, medical technologists, medical lab technicians and social workers, according to Erie News Now.

Unionized Santa Clara County workers in California have called for a strike beginning Oct. 2, according to The Mercury News.

Healthcare workers rallied outside Philadelphia-based Temple University Hospital Oct. 1 to protect their jobs amid contract negotiations, according to TV station WHYY.

Workers at Chicago-based Mount Sinai Hospital have voted to empower their bargaining team to call a strike if they are unable to reach an agreement with hospital management, according to the union that represents them.

A national teachers union leader is speaking out against how the University of Cincinnati Medical Center has treated its nurses, according to The Enquirer.

About 1,200 workers at NYU Winthrop Hospital in Mineola, N.Y., have voted to join the Service Employees International Union United Healthcare East, Local 1199, according to Newsday.