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Employees at Windham Community Memorial Hospital in Willimantic, Conn., have voted to remove American Federation of Teachers as their bargaining representative, according to the National Labor Relations Board. The vote was 168-70 in favor of union decertification.  According to a…

The National Labor Relations Board has dismissed a petition seeking a vote to decertify the union at UPMC Washington (Pa.), citing an existing labor contract, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported April 6. NLRB Acting Regional Director Tara Yoest ruled April 2…

Registered nurses at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass., represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, voted March 30 to ratify a new labor contract, according to a union news release shared with Becker’s. The agreement covers about 750 nurses and…

Primary and urgent care providers represented by the Doctors Council Service Employees International Union have reached a tentative agreement with Minneapolis-based Allina Health. The three-year agreement covers more than 600 Allina physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners and comes more…

On March 30, members of the New York State Nurses Association at Westchester Medical Center-HealthAlliance Hospital in Kingston, N.Y., part of Valhalla, N.Y.-based WMCHealth, ratified a new labor contract. The agreement covers about 300 nurses at the hospital, a union…

Members of the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals in Oregon and Southwest Washington have ratified a new labor contract with Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente. Ninety percent of voters approved the deal, which covers more than 4,500 workers, according…

Registered nurses at six Tenet Healthcare facilities in California have ratified a new three-year labor contract. The agreement was approved March 26 with 93% support across the facilities, according to a March 27 news release from the California Nurses Association.…

Nurses at Aspirus Lake View Hospital in Two Harbors, Minn., have ratified a labor contract. The agreement covers 24 members of the Minnesota Nurses Association and expires Sept. 30, 2028, according to the union. The agreement follows six months of…

Members of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals have ratified labor contracts covering about 31,000 registered nurses and healthcare professionals at Kaiser Permanente facilities in California and Hawaii. The agreements were approved by an overwhelming majority…

A unionization effort by cancer clinicians at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is on hold as the health system seeks a review of the proposed bargaining unit’s structure from the National Labor Relations Board. A majority of the nearly 200…