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Nurses at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center Hospital have reached their first contract with the New York State Nurses Association, according to hospital and union statements. 

Registered nurses at Pittsburgh-based West Penn Hospital have voted to authorize their negotiating committee to issue a strike notice amid contract negotiations, according to hospital and union statements. 

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., is reducing select services because of a nurses strike that has been ongoing since March 8.

More than 500 nurses at Mount Clemens, Mich.- based McLaren Macomb have agreed to a tentative three-year labor contract, according to statement from the hospital and union.

More than 1,500 healthcare workers have voted to sign a three-year contract with Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital in Los Angeles.

Workers at three Tenet Healthcare hospitals in Southern California have authorized a strike that could begin as early as August, according to the union that represents them. 

Two federal courts in neighboring states have issued conflicting rulings in cases involving staffing disputes at HCA Healthcare's Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, Kan., and Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo. 

Workers from Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente will protest July 20 at Kaiser Woodland Hills (Calif.) Medical Center against the outsourcing of call center jobs to other states, according to the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West.

Nurses negotiating a contract at Mount Clemens, Mich.- based McLaren Macomb have issued a 10-day strike notice.

A nearly yearlong unionization effort by security officers at Dignity Health facilities in California has received support from city and county lawmakers in San Francisco.