Physicians, physician associates and nurse practitioners at Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health's primary care clinics announced May 7 their efforts to unionize with the Pacific Northwest Hospital Medicine Association.

Members of the California Nurses Association have approved a new labor contract with Washington Hospital Healthcare System in Fremont, Calif.

Paid sick leave has expanded across the U.S. as more states pass laws related to the issue.

Resident physicians and fellows at the University of Chicago Medical Center voted to join the Committee of Interns and Residents, a local chapter of the Service Employees International Union.

HCA Healthcare faces a lawsuit alleging its Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health illegally kept pay from at least 1,000 employees, the Citizen Times reported May 6.

The National Labor Relations Board has asked a federal court to force Trinity Health Grand Haven (Mich.) Hospital, part of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, to recognize SEIU Healthcare Michigan as the bargaining agent of about 200 employees and to resume negotiations.

Resident physicians have filed dozens of grievances with New York City's public hospital system, alleging systemic understaffing that their union says leaves about 2,300 physicians at NYC Health + Hospitals chronically overworked.

HHS finalized a rule May 1 that updates protections against disability discrimination in healthcare.

Members of three unions affiliated with the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals have approved three-year contracts with Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton, Pa.

Executives are zeroing in on talent strategies that they consider sustainable as they face an uncertain political and economic landscape, according to a recent report from Mercer. 

Members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers began a three-day strike April 23 at the Sutter Center for Psychiatry in Sacramento, Calif., according to NBC affiliate KCRA.

Members of California Nurses Association/National Nurses United plan to hold a 24-hour strike from May 1-2 at Washington Hospital Healthcare System in Fremont, Calif.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare has reached a tentative labor contract with Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West.

Members of three unions affiliated with the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals have voted to begin a five-day strike May 9 at Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton, Pa.

At least a dozen physicians and physician assistants who work in the emergency department at Ascension St. John in Detroit began a 24-hour strike on the afternoon of April 18, according to The Detroit News. The contracted clinicians are employed by TeamHealth, a private equity-owned hospital staffing company. 

Members of the Oregon Nurses Association at Springfield, Ore.-based PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Home Care Services have voted to authorize an open-ended strike.

Members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers are holding a one-day strike April 16 at MarinHealth Medical Center in Greenbrae, Calif.

A critical access hospital in North Dakota will pay $45,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit accusing it of illegally discharging an African American employee after she reported racial harassment.

Members of the Michigan Nurses Association began a five-day strike April 15 at MyMichigan Medical Center Sault in Sault Ste. Marie.

Registered nurses at two Ascension hospitals in Wichita, Kan., ratified new contracts after pledging to strike for a third time if they deemed it necessary to close negotiations.