Members of the Committee of Interns and Residents have voted to authorize a strike at Elmhurst Hospital Center in New York City.

Human resources and internal communications professionals are shaking up their employee messaging mix in the pandemic's wake, Forbes reported May 2. 

Members of the Committee of Interns and Residents are set to begin a three-day strike this month at Jamaica and Flushing hospitals in New York City if they are unable to reach a contract agreement with leadership.

Members of SEIU District 1199 have voted to authorize a strike at Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital, cleveland.com reported. 

Members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East have approved a contract with Danbury, Conn.-based Nuvance Health that includes wage increases. 

Resident and fellow physicians employed by Washington, D.C.-based George Washington University have voted to join the Committee of Interns and Residents, a local of the Service Employees International Union.

Members of the Committee of Interns and Residents have voted to authorize a strike at Jamaica and Flushing hospitals in New York City.

The COVID-19 pandemic may have subsided, but its enormous toll on staff and management at hospitals and health care organizations is still evident, creating tension, pressure, internal disputes and turnover.

Members of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 are set to strike May 9 at Valley Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas. 

Healthcare leaders are acutely aware of the financial impacts of elevated labor expenses, largely driven by contingent labor use during and after the pandemic.

Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., is seeking legal action against the union representing resident physicians related to a demonstration last year, DCist reported April 20.

Members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers went on strike April 19 at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland (Calif.).

Members of Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West at Dignity Health hospitals have approved a new four-year contract with wage increases. 

The competition for hiring physicians is more fierce than ever — a result of COVID, the Great Resignation, evolving employee preferences and various economic trends affecting the supply and demand of clinicians. As a result, healthcare leaders and recruiters across the country are scrambling to find clinical workers, fill positions and retain these individuals.

In the evolving American workforce, flexibility is king, and parental leave is expanding across the country — to workplaces' dismay, The Wall Street Journal reported April 8. 

Members of United Public Workers have ended their nearly two-month strike at Maui Health hospitals by approving a new contract. 

According to a 2022 report from the U.S. Surgeon General, the United States will face a shortage of 3.2 million healthcare workers by 2026 and a shortage of 139,000 physicians by 2033. In addition, nearly two-thirds of physicians today (63 percent) report being burned out. 

The following hospital-union events have been reported by Becker's in March and April.

Nurse practitioners employed by Northern Light Acadia Hospital in Bangor, Maine, will vote on whether to join the American Federation of Teachers, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO.

Service Employees International Union members plan to rally April 19 at HCA Healthcare's headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., over what they allege is a staffing crisis at the for-profit hospital operator, according to a news release shared with Becker's.