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About 800 nurses are set to strike for two days beginning Nov. 17 at Trinity Health-owned St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Pa., but a strike by about 260 nurses at the Mercy Catholic Medical Center’s Mercy Fitzgerald Campus in…

The union representing employees at Calais (Maine) Regional Hospital has canceled a two-day strike after the bargaining unit of registered nurses and medical lab scientists reached a tentative agreement with hospital management, hospital and union officials said Nov. 11.

Nurses at East Liverpool (Ohio) City Hospital are ready to begin a three-day strike Nov. 21 over issues such as staffing and retention, according to the union that represents them.

Five nurses at Chicago-based Cook County Health remained on paid administrative leave Nov. 10 after participating in what they called a Halloween-themed union march at the health system's John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital.

Employees at Calais (Maine) Regional Hospital plan to strike for two days amid contract negotiations to demand their CEO's firing, according to the union that represents them.

More than 1,000 nurses in the Philadelphia area are set to strike for two days beginning Nov. 17 at hospitals that are part of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health's Mid-Atlantic division, according to the union that represents them.

McLaren Flint (Mich.) hospital and the union that represents its nurses have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, according to a joint statement released Oct. 29.

Workers at 11 Tenet Healthcare hospitals in California have voted to authorize a strike over contract negotiations, according to union and Tenet officials.  

The following hospital-union events have been reported since Oct. 14:

Nurses who work at San Francisco's public hospitals and clinics are suing the city, alleging facilities are understaffed and employees are required to complete overtime work without overtime pay, TV station KPIX reported.