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University of Illinois Hospital nurses in Chicago have authorized their bargaining committee to call a strike over safe staffing. 

A union representing 1,190 workers at Riverside (Calif.) Community Hospital has sued the facility, alleging it recklessly facilitated COVID-19 spread, increasing the likelihood of patients, employees, visitors and community would be infected.

Registered nurses at Allegheny Health Network's West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh voted to join Service Employees International Union Healthcare Pennsylvania, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 

The following hospital-union events have been reported since July 30:

HCA Healthcare workers in Las Vegas have asked Nevada hospital regulators to investigate their claims of unsafe working conditions, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

A nurses union in Washington state has lost a court battle seeking damages on behalf of members for unpaid working hours, overtime hours and missed meal periods.

The U.S. Labor Department's new definition of provider disqualified millions of healthcare workers for emergency paid sick leave benefits through the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, according to a report from the department's Office of Inspector General. 

HCA Healthcare's Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, Kan., is suing National Nurses United for grievances the union filed over cuts to nurses' 401(k) plan, reports the Kansas City Business Journal.

Employees at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System in Chicago are prepared to strike unless contract negotiations result in agreements on pay and working conditions, the union that represents them said. 

A union representing employees at a California hospital is calling for a vote of no confidence in the CEO amid a state investigation into allegations of unsafe working conditions and improper COVID-19 response, the Los Angeles Times reports.