About 80 workers at Tyler Memorial Hospital in Tunkhannock, Pa., began a three-day strike April 21.

Healthcare workers have participated in labor strikes across the U.S., citing concerns about staffing, patient care, working conditions and employee retention.

Workers at Tyler Memorial Hospital in Tunkhannock, Pa., plan to begin a three-day strike April 21, according to a union statement.

About 155 union-represented nurses at Barton Memorial Hospital in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., began a two-day strike April 16.

A debate over a housing stipend is at the center of contract negotiations that have stalled between Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Medical Center and hundreds of physicians-in-training, according to the Sacramento Bee.

About 155 nurses at Barton Memorial Hospital in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., plan to strike for two days starting April 16, according to hospital and union statements. 

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SEIU Healthcare Minnesota members at Allina Health have authorized their bargaining team to call a strike if the union and Minneapolis-based health system do not reach an agreement, CBS Minnesota reported April 7.

Naomi Cramer spent 25 years working at Target, where she rose in the ranks to become vice president of talent management, before joining Phoenix-based Banner Health six years ago.

As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues across the U.S., there should be a national policy to ensure low-wage, hourly healthcare workers who are inoculated receive two days of paid leave if side effects prevent them from coming to work after their injection, two Yale University physicians wrote in an April 7 opinion piece for USA Today.

U.S. Rep. James McGovern, D-Mass., is urging Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., and the Massachusetts Nurses Association to resume negotiations in a five-week labor dispute, MassLive reported April 6. 

More than 4,000 hospital workers in Las Vegas have reached a tentative agreement with Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, according to statements from both sides. 

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., and the union representing 800 nurses at the facility continue to spar over staffing as a strike at the facility enters its fifth week, the Telegram & Gazette reported April 3.

Nearly 800 nurses who work in San Joaquin County's health system in California have approved a contract with the county's board of supervisors, according to union and health system statements.

Technical and professional workers have approved their first contract with Cabell Huntington (W.Va.) Hospital executives, according to hospital and union statements. 

The Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations has certified the Service Employees International Union's Committee of Interns and Residents as the collective bargaining representative of 613 University of Massachusetts Medical School physicians in training in Worcester, according to union and medical school statements.

Cameras installed by Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., are at the center of the latest disagreement to surface during a nurses' strike entering its fourth week, the Telegram & Gazette reported March 28.

Registered nurses have approved an agreement with UnityPoint Health-Meriter Hospital in Madison, Wis., averting a strike, according to hospital and union statements. 

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., has reached an agreement with the union representing its ancillary staff as nurses at the hospital began the third week of a strike March 22.

More than 60 Maine lawmakers have written to Maine Medical Center President Jeff Sanders, accusing the Portland-based hospital of attempting to discourage nurses from unionizing and demanding that it stop, Beacon reported March 15.