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Workers at 11 Tenet Healthcare hospitals in California have reached an agreement on pandemic safety, personal protective equipment and workplace health and safety protocols, according to the union that represents them.  

Registered nurses and licensed medical professionals at three HCA Healthcare hospitals in California have voted to authorize their bargaining team to call a strike, according to the union that represents them.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center over COVID-19 protocol involving personal protective equipment and employees who have contracted the virus, the agency said in a letter to the hospital.

The following hospital-union events have been reported since Nov. 18:

An oncology nurse who was placed on administrative leave over her TikTok video publicizing noncompliance with COVID-19 safety measures has lost her job at Salem (Ore.) Health, a health system spokesperson told BuzzFeed News Dec. 7.

The president and CEO of Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center is accusing the union representing nurses at the hospital of trying to intimidate children by having a billboard truck follow his son's bus to school. 

Workers at Sunrise Hospital & Medical in Las Vegas protested Dec. 2 as part of a union #WalkoutWednesday campaign, according to the union that represents them.

Nurses at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center began striking Dec. 1 over working conditions at the facility, according to the union that represents them. 

Montefiore New Rochelle (N.Y.) Hospital moved at least nine hospitalized patients to other facilities within New York City-based Montefiore Health System due to a two-day nursing strike that began Dec. 1, the hospital confirmed to Becker's.

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